Windows 10: Chkdsk Finding Major Problems

Hi,

I'm doing a chkdsk /b on a secondary HDD drive. The drive is a not-too-old (around 5-7 years) 1TB drive. This one seemed to be having trouble a couple of years ago, as I was trying to reinstall Win7 - although I wasn't certain what was causing me problems at the time. I'm now doing a re-install with Win10, and tried doing a /b test in order to eliminate bad sectors. However, the test is getting to around half way and slowing right down. As an idea of the slowness: the percentage was racing at around 1% per couple of minutes up to around 47% where it has taken all night to go to 49%. The cluster count is rising slowly, but veeerrry slowly. Does this mean that the drive is too far gone?

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ChkDsk Problem at computer startup

Hi,

Please provide the answers to the following for us to be able to learn more about the issue you're experiencing:

• Are your drivers up-to-date? If not yet, you can follow the steps found on this
  link on how to update your drivers in Windows 10.
  
• Have you already tried running chkdsk /f /r command in the Command Prompt to fix any errors on the disk? If not yet, here's how:

• Right-click the Start icon, choose Command Prompt (Admin) to execute the Command Prompt window.
• Type chkdsk /f /r, then press the Enter key from the keyboard.
  

If the above mentioned steps have been followed and the message still appears when booting the laptop, it would be best that you contact your laptop manufacturer as there really might be an issue with your hard drive.

You can also consider running the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter
first before contacting your laptop manufacturer to find and repair problems with your devices and hardware. You can follow these steps to run the said troubleshooter:

• Right-click the Start icon, then select Control Panel.
  
• Choose the Large icons option from the View by drop down list found on the upper-right part of the Control Panel window.
  
• Locate then select Troubleshooting.
  
• Click View all from the left pane.
  
• Locate and click Hardware and Devices to run the troubleshooter then follow the next steps.
  

Let us know what happens after doing the troubleshooting steps above.

Regards.

 

chkdsk c: /F

It might be an error on the drive. We suggests that you follow the troubleshooting steps below:

• Run Disk Cleanup utility to clear your junk files.
• Open an elevated CMD type sfc /scannow and hit Enter to run the System File Checker.
  
• Once the scan is completed, restart your computer. Remember to exit ChkDsk
  during boot.
• Next, again open CMD as admin type
  Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and hit Enter to repair the Windows image.
• Now see if ChkDsk able to complete the scan.

Note: Before doing the steps, make sure you save a back up of your files.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Overclocking / Undervolting guide for Vega 56 or 64?

Here's a quick laundry list:

List of software to use for overclocking and testing
Examples:
Wattman (and how to find and use it, like an overview, including profiles)
Unigine Valley or Heaven (use this for quick testing while changing settings in Wattman and checking for stability / artifacts) ...just suggesting this
How to monitor cores / mem speeds and temps during testing (I've seen screen overlays, and others using GPUz)

Step-by step overclocking in Wattman
Fan speeds
Power limit
Temp limit
Voltages
Core speeds
Memory speeds