Several problems with hard drives, with CHKDSK and EFI partition

Anonymous
2022-04-15T17:53:59+00:00

Hello,

My first problem is that i run powershell with admin rights and ran chkdsk f: /f /r . I thought it would restart pc after that but no, just started running chkdsk until now, so i could access the disk. Now, after about 3 hours total progress is 0%, but in phase 2, is this normal? should i wait? HD is not SSD and with 3.63TB capacity. I made chkdsk previously with CMD and didnt take so long, maybe is slower cause didnt boot windows?

Another problem is that the hard drive which made the windows boot was hit and cant be recovered. I had a SSD with the old windows partition, but dont know why needed this other hard drive to boot, i couldnt start Windows so i saw in the internet that could use bootrec /fixmbr, then bootrec /fixboot and then bootrec /rebuildcbd but that just made it worse. After making a clean install in other SSD i see the old windows partition in the other SSD shows my partition with all the data as EFI dont know why and cant access it, i tried to assign it a letter but gives me access denied

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  1. Igor Leyko 112.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-04-20T15:17:43+00:00

    Unfortunately some electronic detail of the drive is near its end, so sometimes it may work (and may not be fully operable), and sometimes may not work. This is so called floating fault, and it may be hard for exact diagnosing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-20T00:29:38+00:00

    Now the drive where i could copy some of the files became dead too, this is crazy, all HD become dead in days...but this seems really dead as beeps at start sometimes. Windows tells me if i want to initialize this other hard drive but i think if i do the data will be lost

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  3. Igor Leyko 112.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-04-19T21:21:45+00:00

    I'm very sorry for bad news but this means hardware problem. Drive need to be repaired or thrown out unfortunately.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-19T16:37:30+00:00

    CrystalDiskInfo doesnt even detect it, even though Windows does, also an easeus app detected the hard drive and told me the drivers of the hard drive are up to date

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  5. Igor Leyko 112.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-04-18T18:51:47+00:00

    Seems this is drive's fault.

    Please show a full window of CrystalDiskInfo tool with this drive selected.

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