- Dec 10, 2015
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Hi Everyone,
I keep getting prompted to repair my external 3gb hard drive every time I plug it in asking me to scan it with chkdsk. It's currently formatted in exFAT so I can easily swap its usage in between my Mac and my Windows systems. I honestly can't recall whether I did that on MacOSX or on Windows.
Regardless, recently I noticed all of a sudden I was unable to cut from and paste to it - only copy. This coincided with the message asking me to scan it or continue using it, so I suspect a sector is borked somewhere. To further add to my frustrations, my desktop won't boot up with it turned on and stays stuck at the options screen to boot into BIOS/boot selection/etc., so I have to turn it off and turn it on
I have tried scanning it from within Windows 7's cmd prompt and it fails - even after I dismount it. I have tried right clicking on the drive going to Properties>and then loading up Check Disk from there and it fails. It gives the error of "unspecified error occurred (766f6c756d652e63 3f1)" for both methods. I then grabbed a Windows 7 repair disk I had kicking around and tried running it within the repair environment and it kicks back the same error. Interestingly when I run sfc /scannow, it says that there's an existing repair waiting and that I should reboot. Of course, I have to power off the drive so I my machine will boot and nothing seems to happen.
I boot back into Windows RE and it's the same frustrating sequence all over again.
To complicate matters, the Windows Repair DVD I have is now complaining it's not valid for the type of Windows 7 installation I have (x64 Home I believe) - which is odd because it *was* working. Now my Windows installation (which is on a separate hard drive) won't boot and I'm getting complaints of BOOTMGR missing. I have tried repairing the MBR and making sure the Windows partition is active (it is) using Partition Wizard Boot CD free version.
HELLLLLLP! I work in IT and this is doing my head in. I've been trying to fix my machine for over 8 hours now and I've finally resorted to asking for help.
I keep getting prompted to repair my external 3gb hard drive every time I plug it in asking me to scan it with chkdsk. It's currently formatted in exFAT so I can easily swap its usage in between my Mac and my Windows systems. I honestly can't recall whether I did that on MacOSX or on Windows.
Regardless, recently I noticed all of a sudden I was unable to cut from and paste to it - only copy. This coincided with the message asking me to scan it or continue using it, so I suspect a sector is borked somewhere. To further add to my frustrations, my desktop won't boot up with it turned on and stays stuck at the options screen to boot into BIOS/boot selection/etc., so I have to turn it off and turn it on
I have tried scanning it from within Windows 7's cmd prompt and it fails - even after I dismount it. I have tried right clicking on the drive going to Properties>and then loading up Check Disk from there and it fails. It gives the error of "unspecified error occurred (766f6c756d652e63 3f1)" for both methods. I then grabbed a Windows 7 repair disk I had kicking around and tried running it within the repair environment and it kicks back the same error. Interestingly when I run sfc /scannow, it says that there's an existing repair waiting and that I should reboot. Of course, I have to power off the drive so I my machine will boot and nothing seems to happen.
I boot back into Windows RE and it's the same frustrating sequence all over again.
To complicate matters, the Windows Repair DVD I have is now complaining it's not valid for the type of Windows 7 installation I have (x64 Home I believe) - which is odd because it *was* working. Now my Windows installation (which is on a separate hard drive) won't boot and I'm getting complaints of BOOTMGR missing. I have tried repairing the MBR and making sure the Windows partition is active (it is) using Partition Wizard Boot CD free version.
HELLLLLLP! I work in IT and this is doing my head in. I've been trying to fix my machine for over 8 hours now and I've finally resorted to asking for help.
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