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Relax, fellows, it's being more an annoying inconvenience than anything else. I really don't think I am going to lose stuff on this disk.
I am doing a format on a client disk right now and as soon I move data back to his computer I will fix the disk and see what happens.
I will keep you posted.
Roland is right. BACKUP is a MUST HAVE. Failures happens all the time, specially on external HDD.
Ok, now I know that I absolutely cannot rely on Windows check disk. What I feared happened: it wiped my disk.
I put it to check the disk and as it was for almost 4 hours doing it and I had to reboot my PC I clicked the 'cancel' button (if there is a cancel button is because it can be used right?). So it stopped the checking and when I tried to access my disk it said 'Acess denied' and now I cannot reach anything on it.
Nice.
I completely agree about not using chekdisk. I had all my music video on a 1.5 TB Seagate external HDD, and a backup of my Pink Floyd collection there as well. I got one of these scan and fix messages and ran it....and it scrambled all my data. Most things don't play at all, and the ones that do I get fragments of Pink Floyd when playing a Metallica video. NEVER run chkdsk. Take my word for it
LoL, yeah, I never will use 'wreckdisk' command again!
After almost two years since I started this thread (when I had a whole disk screwed by this nasty tool) I can tell with absolutely certain that such error messages are false positives. The reason is I have this flash drive that gives the very same error message EVERY TIME I plug it into my desktop (and I do this once in a day Mon-Sun, therefore it was almost 800 times since then). I never bothered do fix it and it's still working perfectly.
So the lesson learned is: when one of your disks give you a sign that it's about to crash simply back up the entire data, reformat the disk and bring data back. Don't even waste your time with MS crap.
In fact I have numerous times run the chkdsk utility on flash drives because they are usually empty when I plug them in, and you know what? No errors are found. Ever.
BTW this thread didn't help me stop the messages
The suggestion to block chkdsk on certain lettered drives is interesting, but a flash drive changes letters depending what slot it's plugged into and how many other things are plugged in as well
Nice to see how quick this thread was answered. When I posted the first time I was warned the thread had been inactive for 695 days and I would likely not get much response.
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