I was busy on my 4 year old Win 7×64 when Windows posted a message to the effect that a disk was faulty and I should backup and repair. Although since my first PC in 1980 I have never had a disk failure I kinow that they can fail so I duly backed up the two partitions which made up the disk. Both were data partitions, the system files being on another drive. I then ran Computer Management/Disk Management which reported that all partitions wee healthy.
I then ran chkdsk on E:Data. It asked to dismount the drive which I accepted and it proceeded to check the drive and reported no errors. I then ran through the same procedure with E:Storage but after accepting dismount nothing happened at all – except on checking the drive name had changed to Local Disk.
I tried this another few times but always with the same result. No checking occurs and the name changes to Local Disk.
Is there a logical explanation for this? I thought perhaps that the partitions being on the same drive were seen by chkdsk as a single drive but checking Microsoft instructions for partitions it would appear that this is not so.
The message from Windows stating that the drive was faulty kept popping up but has not been seen for some time now so perhaps all is well but I would have preferred the reassurance of having chkdsk report no errors on both partitions. As I write this the message has reappeared!!
Any advice would be welcomed.
1-2TB disks are at relatively good prices again, probably slightly newer tech than 500GB drives as well – but be quick, limit your PC usage until your data is backed up (oops, it has been).
