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I know . It was just weird I never had two primary drives hooked up at the same time like that. Just didn't know what would happen. I think it was a lost cause anyways. I set Windows to repair the bad drive at startup, and it did go though to 100%, but when I tried to clone it I got the same...

I don't have anything mission critical on there . I do back up the photos and videos of my son to an external drive plus Google drive . That is the only thing that I was worried about . I will just clone the sea gate I have now and reinstall the programs if this repair doesn't work I wasn't...

The drive can be accessed. But I finally found the log in there. It said there was a file system issue with the "bad" drive. Trying to repair it again. This is totally awful. I had no warnings drive was going bad until this happened . Hoping the repair process will let me do the cloning ...

I am back. I found one of my old external 1TB hard drives. Tested and working fine. Can a drive be "Too damaged" to clone? I have Acronis True Image installed on my 250 Seagate (the old backup that is working fine). I have the bad drive as the "D" drive. I have the external USB as the I...

Got it. I do have a brand new power supply. A 750 watt Antec nearly a year old . I build my own systems. I like to tinker. I think the main "shut downs " have been my fault like bumping the power cord the other night or my son hitting the power button. He is 20 months old.. Not sure how to...

I am not sure if I am going to RMA this one. Maybe I will do it, but I am going to get a brand new Seagate 1 TB at Best Buy tomorrow. The Seagate 250 GB Drive I have now as my primary temporarily has been around for literally 6-7 years with no issues. If I do get an RMA, I will use it as a 3rd...

Thank you. I was thinking it could possibly be something "physical" but then I was thinking there was no way for that to be the case since the drive was so relatively new. The thing that threw me off was that I had absolutely had no issues with the drive until the other night when I bumped the...

Ran the Western Digital diagnostics .. Too many bad sectors . Drive is literally about a year old. I had RMAd the first one last January and they sent me a new one. Can't believe this. Two bad drives from them

The second drive is an external usb drive.. if that helps your query. It can be tested by selecting it. Got it. I guess the question was phrased poorly..since it is not the primary drive the "errors" can be repaired without having to reboot the system and have it done at startup?

Totally random question...would I be able to error check/fix errors on the "bad drive" while I am using the old drive as my primary? i was going to use the Windows error checker..is the WD utility better?

Is there any way for me to test the health of a hard drive? Here is the situation. I originally had a very old 250 GB Seagate drive that served as my primary drive for a long time. Never had any issues with it. I wanted a little more space so I purchased a 1 TB Western Digital Drive and used...

Not sure what is going on here. I have two accounts on my Windows 8.1 PC. Mine and a guest. I went to make an account for my stepdaughters with their own password and a Frozen theme and not able to do it. I did a virus scan and the the DISM/Restorehealth and it fixed something that was corrupt...

This is what I am typing in directly Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth The DISM command is right after system32> no spaces...and there is one space after each of the / commands for example Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth

Not sure what is going on here. I was having trouble adding a user account. Not sure why. I did the DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth command and it said clean-image option is unknown. The sfc /scannow worked. If you see my posting history, the DISM command was working last week. I...

I ran chkdsk a few times and a couple of other ones the "dism" health ones. Whatever it was it is fixed. I forgot to say there was the other issue that was bothering me when the drives were not coming up quickly. The system was hanging at restarts. I was worried about the long term damage to my...

It keeps on getting to 96 % then it says it's a failed install. Deleted temp files. Really weird though. My drive issue is fixed in terms of taking forever to show under my PC. Maybe I should just be happy for now with the way it is.

Thank you for your respondes. Is there any way I could upload the CBS log ? Possibly some files need replaced . I also downloaded and 8.1 ISO image and am following the directions from another poster on this board to do a refresh without having to reinstall all my programs . It has been stuck...

Not sure what is causing this. It started taking forever for my drives to show up under my PC. Windows 8.1 64 bit all updates. I click on my PC and the status bar takes a really long time. I ran a disk repair, defrag, chdsk with no luck.For some reason my system stopped creating restore points...

I haven't played games in a while. I basically dragged and dropped most of my games onto an external hard drive . I was living with my mom and left the original discs there. I was trying to install flight simulator x just to see how it looked with my new 780 and realized I didn't know how to...

I obtained a Windows 8.1 iso image to try to do a repair of my previous issues with missing programs. When I click on setup from the disc, it says cannot run due to missing wdsutil.dll missing. I was able to find a copy of this dll elsewhere. Which folder do I put it in so I can start repair?