Chkdsk will not run on my data partition giving "unspecified error" messages. Googling this gives a multitude of reasons and solutions, non of which work (such as running from dos/safe mode).
I think it's a corrupted NTFS file system but I could be wrong, cuz it happened when I was organizing files on the drive with two different apps and the file names show up but are "not found" when trying to open them.
I ran sfc /scannow which found errors, but like most windows crap was no use "unable to fix them".
bootitbm cannot image the drive successfully giving these errors when trying to open:
"insert media 1 containing file C:\lenovo_DDATBAK_2-2-17.tbi
unable to open file
error 6 opening file c:\lenovo_ddatbak_2-2-17.tbi
This usually means the file is not accessible or the file is invalid
Ensure the file exists and the user has read permissions; update to latest
version of tbiview; consider checking or replacing system ram"
I am experiencing no other noticeable problems with ram (except occasional lags of failure to load bootitbm opening screen). Permissions are ok for the file. FIle exists cannot open it. Imaged it twice with verify byte by byte.
I have downloaded western digitals DLG check(an supposedly repair), but I have my doubts it will work).
I spent hours transferring data files to this drive and erasing same files from USB. I'd HATE to have to reformat the drive so I can run chkdsk. THe drive is functioning normally and I can access 99.9 percent of what's on it, but I can no longer image the drive with bootitbm, cuz the image fails.
Any ideas? Thanks for all your helpful replies.