Re: offtopic: better chkdsk than chkdsk

Yup. It stalls out and I need to restart the whole computer. I think my next
plan is try and run an undelete program on the volume and see what it
recovers. Then run chkdsk again.

Gene

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:22 PM, John Bundy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Did you try scandisk
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Check-your-hard-disk-for-errors
>
>  On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Gene Jannece <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  I have a Drobo, and I love it. But I ran into an issue with it on the
>> NTFS filesystem side. When I mount the drive in Windows 7 it complains that
>> there are errors on the volume and scandisk/chkdsk needs to be run on it. So
>> sure, I run chkdsk /f (and /x for unmounting the volume) on a 5.62 Terabyte
>> volume that is just under half full. It gets to the part where it starts to
>> recover missing files and errors out with an "out of space" error. So my
>> question is does anybody have a suggestion for a better program that does
>> what chkdsk?
>>
>> Gene
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