I have a problem with my drive as I said in another thread, I was trying to fix this by running chkdsk and looking for bad sectors however whenever I run it I get only so far before everything goes to heck, here:
J:\>chkdsk /r
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) y
Volume dismounted. All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.
Volume label is Longterm Storage.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
File record segment 45156 is unreadable.
And from there it will keep on repeating these file record segment notices, I had chkdsk running for two days straight before giving up, it had only gone through like a few hundred of those in that time.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who did not.
Forcing an unmount and scanning from inside Windows is kind of unreliable for chkdsk, in my experience. It might be better to say "no" to the unmount question then agreeing to run chkdsk on the next startup (which it will ask next).
OK I downloaded Seatools, a seagate scanning utility and it found no problems with the physical disc however file structure scans all yielded critical errors. On the reccomendation of some dude on arstechnica I used DBAN and wiped the entire drive over with zeroes and started from scratch.
Now I've repartitioned the drive and reinstalled windows and re-run seatools and this time zero errors have been found.
Well nice.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who did not.
