Hey guys I have an old internal drive which got turned into an external drive due to bad sectors but it is still use able as an external drive. Now I scan this drive because it recommends me to and then it takes 3 secs and it scans 48K+ file records and then slows down to 1 per 10 seconds or more. Now I checked the process the scan is running under and it's explorer.exe is it okay to change the priority of explorer.exe to a higher than normal setting? Help fast would be good.
Scanning an External Drive for errors
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I would use chkdsk /r on that drive. Open Computer and right click on the drive. There select the tools option. You should see error checking as an option. Run that. Might require a reboot, not sure with external drives on this one. This is the best way to get Windows to flag the bad sectors and prevent the OS from using them extending the life of the drive for you.
But the system file checker will not help the OS not use the bad sectors. Meaning that continued use of the drive can cause you to lose your data. The reason being is this, the drive has bad sectors, you know this and acknowledge this. But the system doesnt know which ones are bad. So it will continue to use the drive as if nothing is wrong and not flag the bad sectors. This can cause file corruption due to this and possibly cause you to lose some data cause the information was stored on a bad sector.
Running the Check Disk as I suggested will force the system to remove the data from the bad sectors, mark them as bad so that it wont use them anymore. This will ensure that your data is safe and can continue to be accessed with no threat of it becoming corrupted.
Running the Check Disk as I suggested will force the system to remove the data from the bad sectors, mark them as bad so that it wont use them anymore. This will ensure that your data is safe and can continue to be accessed with no threat of it becoming corrupted.
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