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October 30, 2007 at 05:23 PM
sakura7777

CHKDSK doesn’t repair disk errors

by sakura7777 . Updated 17 years, 5 months ago

I know my hard drive is failing, and I need to buy a new one asap! But I’m curious about something…

I boot from my Vista install disk, and start up the recovery console. I get to the command prompt, and run CHKDSK c: /r

During the scan I notice a lot of errors being repaired. (File sysytem and surface errors) At the end of the scan I get “Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50”.

I get this every time I run CHKDSK, using the X switch, or R switch, or F switch. And the funny thing is, I get the SAME ERRORS being reported as fixed every time. The same! So I guess even though the errors are being reported as fixed, CHKDSK is not actually doing the repairs?

Sorry for the long message, but I was trying to give a clear explanation of my problem!

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