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chkdsk not available for raw drives problem
Hi. I have a Win 7 Pro 64-bit pc with VMWARE player installed on a second partition on the main HD U:/. I recently starting getting errors when using the VM saying that the operation on the file U:/xxxxxxx/windows 7 x64.vmdk failed. I tried to run chkdsk /f /r on the U: drive and got the error above saying the type of file system is RAW. I went into computer managment/disk management and U: still says NTFS. I use the U: drive for all my data files with the C: drive containing OS and programme files. I am not getting any errors when accessing other files on the U: drive just the VM. i managed to copy the offending file .vmdk to another drive.
Just not sure what to do next as reluctant ot use some random tool without knowing what exactly I am shooting at. You guys are always so helpful I thought it best to get it from the horses mouth.
I have a system image of my C: drive but not the U: drive. I keep daily backups of the U: drive using Windows backup.
Thanks for any advice
Mike