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It's quite alright, Joodoo :)
My point is that when I type chkdisk/chkdsk in diskpart in Windows 7, I get the list of commands supported i diskpart, and chkdsk doesn't appear there.
Did you mean I need to do the select in diskpart and then run chkdsk from the command prompt and not from the diskpart shell?
Thanks!
Thank you Essenbe.
I read carefully the link, and option 2. However I'm not sure how does that apply in my case, since the driver is not assigned with drive letter, when I connect the USB cable.
As far as I can tell, chkdsk needs a drive letter as a parameter of what drive to check, no?
Thanks!
Quite right, tommythecat.
diskpart
list disk
select disk 3
chkdsk /f
Hi joodoo,
I did that and here's what I get:
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
When I clicked "Y", the system did restart but nothing really happened with the external drive.
Thanks!
Try this:
Command Prompt at Startup (Option One)
Connect the USB drive
Boot from Windows 7 install media
In the cmd window, type:
diskpart
listdisk
select disk 3 (or enter the corresponding drive number for external HDD)
clean all
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
This will undoubtedly take quite some time. Be patient....