Re: What do these chkdsk errors mean?

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<squarenesswafer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So it apparently found some errors, and after running chkdsk in
windows
again, I went back and did an /r and it found more errors. The only
error unique to the first check is the one about free space marked as
allocated in the MFT bitmap.

Is there any reason to worry about the errors? This is a brand new
hard drive, so i was surprised to see errors so soon.

Thank you very much for any insight you can offer!

Ok - are you saying that EVERY TIME you run chkdsk it finds errors? That
would certainly be a problem.

If these things appear as a one-off kinda thing it isn't anything to worry
about in terms of drive health in and of itself. Files get messed up on a
disk sometimes, it's just how it is and it doesn't mean too much unless it
happens a lot (typically it means a program crashed while trying to write a
file).

In your event log, (control panel, performance and maintenance,
administrative tools I think...) under system, does it have any messages
about a hard drive having a bad block or anything like that? That plus the
'soft' errors found by chkdsk could indicate an issue.

New drives are more likely to fail than you think... you plug in a newly
ordered drive and you don't know if it shipped from the manufacturer with a
problem or if the delivery guy or warehouse people dropped it or whatever. I
don't mean to unduly alarm you or anyone else with that statement, I'm just
saying that there is nothing magical about a new hard drive that means it
can't possibly be a dud.


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