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CHKDSK on eSATA Drive Formatted For Use With Macrium Reflect
I cannot seem to get Macrium Reflect Home Edition to verify an image. (See attached image)
On their forum I read that perhaps I needed to run
chkdsk /r /f
on the backup disk to which I am writing. The image appears to write but cannot be read, or perhaps I do not understand the error message in the attachment. I could not run chkdsk either:
F:\>chkdsk /r /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. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N)
I replied with NO.
I was asked if I wanted to run it on the next reboot. Concerned that chkdsk might run on another drive I replied NO and exited the command prompt.
I opened Process Explorer and searched for the drive, F: and there were no processes running. I even rebooted and opened the elevated command prompt as the only activity and had the same experience when trying to run chkdsk.
How do I run chkdsk on this disk? Should I force a dismount?