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Questions tagged [scan-disk]

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Does Scan Disk and Check Disk really help to fix the hard disk error?

Is the scan disk and check disk command ( CHKDSK ) is really fixing the hard disk error, or at the very minimum, stops the hard disk error from propagating?
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Disk consistency check hangs - Windows XP

Whenever I turn on my PC I get a warning that the “system disks must be checked for consistency”. When it starts it goes through step 1 of 3 fine, but when it gets to step 2 (verifying indexes) just stays at 0%. I’ve tried leaving for 10 minutes or…
Simon P Stevens
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Scan Disk then Defrag, or Defrag then Scan Disk (in Windows)?

Which one should I do first in Windows 7? Scan Disk or Defragmenter?
trusktr
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Chicken and Egg: Can't Restore System Point and Can't Run Scan-Disk

I have an awesomely evil hard-drive corruption of some sort going on with my Windows 7 installation. Whenever I schedule a scandisk and restart, Windows tells me that the hard-drive is corrupted and I need to restore to a past system restore…
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Can I Retrieve back the files on a hard disk that contains bad sector?

Can I always retrieve back the folders and files on a hard disk that contains bad sectors? As far as I know bad sectors do spread, and it can cost your OS unable to bootup if the bad sectors are in the OS drive. But whether it will spread to a…
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Cannot access drive in Windows 7 after scandisk lockup, but can in safe mode

I ran scandisk on my external USB drive due to the inability to delete a few files. Windows asked me if I wanted to unmount the drive before the scan, warning me that it would be unusable until the scan was finished, and I said yes. During the…
Matt Thompson
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How can I repair the OSX root partition without the original disk?

I used /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app to check root partitions for problems and Verify Disk function said there were some issues. But there seems to be no way to run Repair Disk - it wants me to run OSX installation disk and select such…
taw
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Why did Windows remove the ScanDisk GUI?

Why isn't the ScanDisk graphical user interface available on Windows XP and Windows Vista (maybe Windows 7 also)?
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Has Microsoft improved Scandisk, CHKDSK and Defrag in Windows 7?

Is there only interface design change or something internally has changed? Most of the time I could see that Scandisk is unable to check OS partition as there are no rights. It schedules the task to be run at the time of Windows start. The ScanDisk…
RPK
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Schedule disk scan for Ubuntu boot

How can I schedule a disk scan for the next boot in Ubuntu?
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Windows XP scandisk is frozen

As the title says, I ran scandisk on an external disk. It froze after 5 minutes. Right now it's been 3 days. I need to stop it, but the cancel button doesn't work. This problem happened to me once, and forced quit the program : bad idea, lots of…
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What are Found.00 files and folders?

Sometimes in my hard disk I can see some of the folders names Found.00 and etc in a hidden mode. I guess this is scan log folders and files . But why this has been created ? how do we get rid of those and what kind of information we can get it from…
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Bad Sectors Relocation on Windows XP

I think my hard disk contains bad sectors and those bad sectors locate on the place where VM instance is, is there a tool that will allow me to fix those errors, or at least shift all the bad sectors from crucial point to the no so crucial place, so…
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On XP many application won't start, get fixed after scandisk, but the the same again after reboot

So I've got Win XP, after startup I'm unable to run many applications (like Google Chrome, Opera, Lightroom) while some (Word for example) are running OK. If I make a scandisk (during bootup) the things get fixed, but only till the next reboot, when…
Vasily Korolev
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I always get a "scan and fix" message for external HDD, but no problem ever found (Win 7)

I have an external HDD that, when I plug it into my Windows 7 laptop, always initializes with the "do you want to scan and fix" message. I've run it a few times, but the built in Windows scanner never finds any problems. Additionally, the "access"…
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