Questions tagged [chkdsk]
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ChkDsk Timout during repair attempt
I started chkdsk H: /F /R /X as admin on a SATA harddisk (WD Caviar Green 1TB) that I mounted using an USB adapter.
After a while the operation timed out with the message
The specified I/O on \Device\Harddisk3\DR60 was not
completed before the…

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running exe makes system unresponsive
I run the file using the command prompt and it got stuck and we had to reboot the server.
After the server started I put the exe into another folder and when I run this time it run sucessfully but it still hung when we run it from the original…

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How to run Chkdsk on all drives at startup on Windows Server 2003R2
I am struggling to find a way to automate chkdsk /f on all drives at startup, as so far I couldn't accomplish this task.
Cannot use chkdsk in a batch file, as it would require user intervention (Y/N prompts in case of locked volumes).
The "fsutil…

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Need to boot into chkdsk from USB on Windows netbook
While attempting to install Ubuntu on a 32-bit Windows XP netbook, the partition resize operation failed due to inconsistencies in the NTFS filesystem (lesson learned: run chkdsk /f in Windows before trying to resize a partition in Linux). Now the…

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run chkdsk from linux partition of wubi install
I have installed linux using the wubi installer, and recently my Windows partition became corrupt (hangs during boot). I would like to run chkdsk on it to try and fix it, but I cannot figure out a way to schedule it from the linux boot. I have also…

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How to delete a file in a LUN that gives an error?
I have a 1.5GB LUN, on a QNAP NAS.
The LUN is attached to a W2K3, and has some folders shared on it.
On one sub-folder there is a specific file, that is corrupted. I need to delete it, but I can't even access it.
The file is
The error I get when…

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chkdsk windows server 2003
I was wondering approximately how long I should expect a chkdsk on a raid 5 array with a max capacity of 300GB would take? It seems it has been on step 4 of 5 for quite a while.

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What could be the cause of this Chkdsk mid-message deadlock?
What could cause the following chkdsk result:
chkdsk /b /f /v /scan c:
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…

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Disable CHKDSK without being able to bootup
The system I am working on started to randomly reboot, thinking it was a harddrive error (we've had two machines fail due to this already), I rebooted the computer to run chkdsk.
Now the problem is that waiting the 1.5 hours for CHKDSK to complete,…

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What CHKDSK exactly logging and reporting, 'flashing' messages on prompt?
Seems nobody interested in giving answer to be exact about this 'issue' on last post.
So i just re-writing up new thread with question as more simply.
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This is the screen just before exiting chkdsk. There were bad sectors…

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Need to make sure about chkdsk issue
As you can see, i ran chkdsk /r on hard drive which got some bad sectors and this is screenshot for last moment before i stopped chkdsk. i canceled chkdsk after ran some minutes because i heard run chkdsk /r on hard drive with bad sectors can lose…

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