@Pittguy578 - You could just be having a bad luck streak with drives, but note (if unlucky) even a
single sudden loss of power can corrupt a hard drive. If you have had several power outages, or if your power supply is a bit unstable, these problems may persist. You might consider swapping in a known good PSU.
whs said:
You can also run a chkdsk /f /r
caperjack said:
chkdsk /f /r in Command Prompt.
the f=fix. the r= repair
Sorry guys but there is some confusion here. You don't need to use /f with /r because /r "implies" (already includes) /f.
In other words, all you need is
chkdsk /r and chkdsk will attempt to fix any error AND recover any readable information on that drive, just as if you used
chkdsk /r /f.
Also, please note /r is for "recover" not repair and this is why /r includes /f - the drive cannot recover any data without first attempting to fix the error at that location.
To verify this yourselves, use the common DOS
/? switch. Open a command prompt and enter
chkdsk /?. There you will see examples of all the syntax options, and their descriptions. Note if you know your drive was formatted using the NTFS file system, you could use
chkdsk /b and this will "imply" (include) /r which already implies /f.