Windows 10: Error an unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 10d4). on chkdsk

Hello,

I just run a chkdsk on my external hdd and during the scan it stopped and i got this error:


An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 10d4).


The paramenters i used were:


chkdsk /F /R /X


I tried to search this error but i couldnt find any information.

:)

 

CHKDSK /F fails with An unspecified error occurred.


I decided to run chkdsk /f on a 1TB external usb HDD. It failed with:

An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 1f66).
An unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 1713).






....then I tried another known good external HDD, same error. Then I tried an internal partition, same error. Then I freshly formatted a usb flash drive as ntfs and checked it, same error.

Then I tried three different PCs, 1809 17763.379 (x86 and x64) and 1803 17134.648 (x86). All failed a chkdsk /f with an unspecified error on any ntfs drive I checked.

Then I tried Windows 7 and it passed the drives with a clean bill of health!





Is it me, or is Windows 10's chkdsk /f broken as far as ntfs is concerned?


PS: chkdsk WITHOUT the /f runs fine in Windows 10 on all the drives and says they are healthy.

 

chkdsk - An unspecified error occurred

Since I could not boot anymore I mounted an SSD into an external case and run chkdsk /f, and it comes up with:

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

333056 file records processed.

File verification completed.

21395 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 532).

An unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 1713).

I'd like to know if this is a hardware problem, or what to do, since the drive is still under warranty grace period.

I can browse the file system normally, and I came to this point after running chkdsk and, following directions in the events log, chkdsk /spotfix (however it went on asking for chkdsk /f).

In case it could be relevant, I am attaching
full log of these two attemps (before the one pasted on this post).

 

CHKDSK output - "An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 8cd)"

My external hard disk drive is detected in the device manager but from file explorer it cannot open, not even shows free space status.

Checked in Storage > Disk Management but it stuck forever at "Loading disk configuration information..."

Following is the output of CHKDSK /f. Please help me understand if I can get access to the data from this disk drive and how ?

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /f i:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is BACKinBLACK.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

81408 file records processed.

File verification completed.

6 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

Removing corrupt index $O in file 19.

Correcting error in index $I30 for file 419E.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the bitmap for index $I30 for file 419E.

Sorting index $I30 in file 419E.

Correcting error in index $I30 for file 41AC.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the bitmap for index $I30 for file 41AC.

Sorting index $I30 in file 41AC.

Correcting error in index $I30 for file 41BA.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the bitmap for index $I30 for file 41BA.

Sorting index $I30 in file 41BA.

Correcting error in index $I30 for file 41D4.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the bitmap for index $I30 for file 41D4.

An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 8cd).