Windows 10: seagate external hard drive not accessible, chkdsk gives An unspecified error occurred...

hello

I have a seagate freeagent go external hard drive that has stopped working. accessing it in explorer give invalid parameter error

Performing chkdsk gives An unspecified error occurred 6e74667363686b2e 1187.


is there a way to access the drive and recover data?

:)

 

An unspecified error occurred by chkdsk

I didn't have access to my external Seagate 700 GB, so I got EaseUS Data Recovery and recovered the 250 GB I had used. I use Win 10.

Reformatted the drive and started copying files to it. It started the process, but it would freeze. At times, the drive would just simply disengage and the process was stopped because it could not find the drive. I did this several times, advancing slowly,
but then I decided to check it.

I used "chkdsk f:/r" from Command prompt and it completed the five stages, but at the end, it reported:

"an unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 137a)" and

"an unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 1713)"

I have not been able to find any suggestion on what to do. Could you help, please?

 

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 (6e74667363686b2e 12a9)

Hey there, so i've been using my external 1TB hard drive to store steam games and movies, but since 2 weeks ago its been running really slow, so i tried doing a chkdsk and i get the error: An unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 12a9). So does anyone
know why this happened? Thx