For some weird reason, Chkdsk kept refusing to complete. It would recognize and flag the errors, but it wouldn’t attempt to repair them. Windows wasn’t too happy with that situation.
Eventually, it got its act together (after the billionth “yank the power cord out” restart), repaired the errors, and everything’s been fine since.
I don’t know what happened. I had noticed some funkiness in Windows the past couple of days, and there was a pretty nasty power outage a couple of weeks back ago that might have damaged something. After running some diagnostics, though, the drive checks out physically.
It’s just my system drive on my desktop, so if it bites the dust at some point, it’s no big loss. No important data there. Still, I’d rather avoid the hassle of replacing it.
I had this problem 3 times, i hope it’s not too late, but don’t let Chkdsk complete its scan! If you can spare another harddisk, you can still extract some data from C:
Try using R-studio to recover your C: drive’s files (assuming you have some important data in there) This is usually the work of a Trojan.
Like I said… no need for backups, as this is my system drive. There’s nothing on it but Windows and a few apps. It’s not my primary machine, either. It IS my media box, however.
That said, I do a lot of DVD backups for stuff that simply can’t be replaced (photos, basically). If my anime music drive went kaput, for example, it would suck… but it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
extra long file names, and/or deep nested directories will give chkdsk a fit (it thinks these are physical disk errors), I take it you have chkdsk on boot up?
Following improper restarts, yeah. In this case, there were actual errors that needed repairing. Lots of them.
As for why Chkdsk was so finicky initially, I don’t know. Even when it finally cooperated, the process took forever. But I haven’t noticed any problems since… no lost data, no missing directories, no funky Windows behavior. Everything’s running smoothly. I just did a format/reinstall a month or so ago, too, so the drive’s nice and clean.
Still, I might go ahead and create an image of the drive so that, if it does fail at some point in the near future, I can get up and running again without much trouble.
Ouch.
Any backups?
That’s such a bummer.. :(
I might have lucked out…
For some weird reason, Chkdsk kept refusing to complete. It would recognize and flag the errors, but it wouldn’t attempt to repair them. Windows wasn’t too happy with that situation.
Eventually, it got its act together (after the billionth “yank the power cord out” restart), repaired the errors, and everything’s been fine since.
I don’t know what happened. I had noticed some funkiness in Windows the past couple of days, and there was a pretty nasty power outage a couple of weeks back ago that might have damaged something. After running some diagnostics, though, the drive checks out physically.
It’s just my system drive on my desktop, so if it bites the dust at some point, it’s no big loss. No important data there. Still, I’d rather avoid the hassle of replacing it.
Better than what happened to my laptop, I suppose.
“Macs more stable than PCs” my ass!
Oh, hell. I got to see a lot of that screen the last time I tried to “migrate” one Windows install to another drive. I feel your pain…
HALT! STOP EVERYTHING!!
I had this problem 3 times, i hope it’s not too late, but don’t let Chkdsk complete its scan! If you can spare another harddisk, you can still extract some data from C:
Try using R-studio to recover your C: drive’s files (assuming you have some important data in there) This is usually the work of a Trojan.
Hope this helps :)
You know you don’t have to yank the powercord out right?
Holding the power button for 6 seconds usually does it.
That said, backups
Just last month I backed up around 200gb of data. Should have done so much sooner, but at least now I can rest easy.
Like I said… no need for backups, as this is my system drive. There’s nothing on it but Windows and a few apps. It’s not my primary machine, either. It IS my media box, however.
That said, I do a lot of DVD backups for stuff that simply can’t be replaced (photos, basically). If my anime music drive went kaput, for example, it would suck… but it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Jeff,
extra long file names, and/or deep nested directories will give chkdsk a fit (it thinks these are physical disk errors), I take it you have chkdsk on boot up?
Following improper restarts, yeah. In this case, there were actual errors that needed repairing. Lots of them.
As for why Chkdsk was so finicky initially, I don’t know. Even when it finally cooperated, the process took forever. But I haven’t noticed any problems since… no lost data, no missing directories, no funky Windows behavior. Everything’s running smoothly. I just did a format/reinstall a month or so ago, too, so the drive’s nice and clean.
Still, I might go ahead and create an image of the drive so that, if it does fail at some point in the near future, I can get up and running again without much trouble.
For a second I thought you watched Magipoka. Blah. Take it as a hint and save yourself time, though. Change what needs be changed.
*looks at page name* “Uma Did It at Hop Step Jump!”
…sounds like a bumper sticker…
Wow, that’s one scary screen I never want to see on my screen… unless it’s the comp. at work. BWAH AH AH HA!