Hey there lads,
Just a quick issue I'm having with my Seagate 200GB drive. I'm pretty sure a few sectors of the drive a royally destroyed. Here's what happens.
A file will be downloading, say, a **** file. This file suddenly fails, has an error, cyclic redundancy check etc etc, and can no longer continue. Sometimes, a basic recheck of the file fixes it, but normally not. The only other way is to perform a full chkdsk on the drive (all 5 stages). After that the files come right. Sometimes even then it decides to do a chkdsk before windows boots as well, and that does its thing, finds some bad sectors, deletes some index entries, repairs some things. All seems well you'd think.
But then another file becomes corrupt, and not necessarily the same one. I assume its the file that decides to start writing to these particular sectors on the drive?
I hope you guys can understand the issue I'm putting forth here, quite tired.
Bonus question: is there a way to force chkdsk to run on boot for a non-windows drive?
Any help appreciated greatly.
Cheers
Paul
Just a quick issue I'm having with my Seagate 200GB drive. I'm pretty sure a few sectors of the drive a royally destroyed. Here's what happens.
A file will be downloading, say, a **** file. This file suddenly fails, has an error, cyclic redundancy check etc etc, and can no longer continue. Sometimes, a basic recheck of the file fixes it, but normally not. The only other way is to perform a full chkdsk on the drive (all 5 stages). After that the files come right. Sometimes even then it decides to do a chkdsk before windows boots as well, and that does its thing, finds some bad sectors, deletes some index entries, repairs some things. All seems well you'd think.
But then another file becomes corrupt, and not necessarily the same one. I assume its the file that decides to start writing to these particular sectors on the drive?
I hope you guys can understand the issue I'm putting forth here, quite tired.
Bonus question: is there a way to force chkdsk to run on boot for a non-windows drive?
Any help appreciated greatly.
Cheers
Paul