Hello,
I am working on a data management & protection project for my home equipment. I am doing this for a few reasons including running out of space on a secondary internal HDD on my laptop and protecting & archiving really old data that I still want to keep off of a really old 3TB SeaGate FreeAgent Go Flex Drive. The SG is really old and is a mech drive so as a tech I understand that mech drives (like people) don't live forever even though I have zero problems with the drive. I recently purchased a new 10TB SeaGate USB drive to use as my archive repository. Here's the list of my HW:
The old 3TB Seagate is the drive I am having problems with. I have Acronis and when I tried to run a BU of this drive it failed with the error "File system error is found. Consider checking the disk using Check Disk Utility". So I ran ChkDsk with both /f and /r (separately) I copied the full results to the txt file I attached. It found errors (expected - it is an ancient drive) on both forms of the ChkDsk. The /f made corrections to the file system and said no further action is required. I wanted to check for and repair bad sectors and lost clusters so I ran the /r and that is where I have run into problems and why I am posting here. ChkDsk /r got through the first 3 stages and ran into problems in state 4 giving the errors you will see in the text file. One of the errors said "The disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters detected in file 50C4A but the drive has the capacity ratio of 1.35TB available of 2.72TB so I don't understand how it can be claiming to not have enough free space for the recovery it needs to do?
I appreciate all suggestions and explanations. I will be around all day to reply promptly to this thread as needed.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Wonder Woman
I am working on a data management & protection project for my home equipment. I am doing this for a few reasons including running out of space on a secondary internal HDD on my laptop and protecting & archiving really old data that I still want to keep off of a really old 3TB SeaGate FreeAgent Go Flex Drive. The SG is really old and is a mech drive so as a tech I understand that mech drives (like people) don't live forever even though I have zero problems with the drive. I recently purchased a new 10TB SeaGate USB drive to use as my archive repository. Here's the list of my HW:
- HP Pavilion Laptop DV7 6b32 US that is 64bit running Win10 Pro with 16GB RAM (purchased in 2011 - I still have the receipts - yes, it is officially this year 10 yrs old I will be throwing it a birthday party)
- 2 internal drives - 1 is a 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD dedicated to OS and programs and 2nd drive "data" 1TB Hitachi HGST HTS541010A9E680
- 3TB SeaGate FreeAgent Go Flex Drive
- SeaGate Expansion Desktop 10TB External HDD USB 3.0 (STEB10000400)
The old 3TB Seagate is the drive I am having problems with. I have Acronis and when I tried to run a BU of this drive it failed with the error "File system error is found. Consider checking the disk using Check Disk Utility". So I ran ChkDsk with both /f and /r (separately) I copied the full results to the txt file I attached. It found errors (expected - it is an ancient drive) on both forms of the ChkDsk. The /f made corrections to the file system and said no further action is required. I wanted to check for and repair bad sectors and lost clusters so I ran the /r and that is where I have run into problems and why I am posting here. ChkDsk /r got through the first 3 stages and ran into problems in state 4 giving the errors you will see in the text file. One of the errors said "The disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters detected in file 50C4A but the drive has the capacity ratio of 1.35TB available of 2.72TB so I don't understand how it can be claiming to not have enough free space for the recovery it needs to do?
I appreciate all suggestions and explanations. I will be around all day to reply promptly to this thread as needed.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Wonder Woman
