I formated and reinstalled windows, and now everytime I restart CHDSK runs and it finds more bad file segments, its up to I think 74 KB in bad clusters now.
Is my harddrive about to bite the dust? Anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Harddrive failing?
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guttermouth punk
, May 21 2006 11:33 AM
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Posted 21 May 2006 - 11:33 AM
guttermouth punk
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I formated and reinstalled windows, and now everytime I restart CHDSK runs and it finds more bad file segments, its up to I think 74 KB in bad clusters now.
Is my harddrive about to bite the dust? Anyway to fix this?
Thanks
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Posted 22 May 2006 - 12:28 AM
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Click start then run, type cmd then press enter
At the command prompt type fsutil dirty query c: (or the relevant drive letter). This queries the drive, and more than likely it will tell you that it is dirty.
Next type CHKNTFS /X C: The X tells Windows not to check that particular drive on the next reboot.
Reboot, it should load to the desktop
Once Windows has loaded bring up another CMD prompt and type Chkdsk /f /r c:
This should take you through the 5 stages of the scan and will unset the dirty bit.
Finally type fsutil dirty query c and Windows will confirm that the dirty bit is not set on that drive.
At the command prompt type fsutil dirty query c: (or the relevant drive letter). This queries the drive, and more than likely it will tell you that it is dirty.
Next type CHKNTFS /X C: The X tells Windows not to check that particular drive on the next reboot.
Reboot, it should load to the desktop
Once Windows has loaded bring up another CMD prompt and type Chkdsk /f /r c:
This should take you through the 5 stages of the scan and will unset the dirty bit.
Finally type fsutil dirty query c and Windows will confirm that the dirty bit is not set on that drive.
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