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
    2022-04-17T19:39:18+00:00

    What happens when you click on Update now at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-17T19:53:55+00:00

    Tells me i can download the version of November 2021, i am downloading it. Maybe this could be the cause of my hard drive failing randomly? cause it is weird it worked the day before to the clean install

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  3. Igor Leyko 112.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-04-17T20:23:18+00:00

    No, Windows cannot cause hard drive faults.

    But please check hardware manufacturer site, is you hardware compatible with latest Windows builds?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-18T03:57:26+00:00

    I mean that Windows could update the hard drives or detect better the drives having windows using the latest version. I updated Windows completely and today i could see all folders again, but cant copy them tells me something like in the pic

    I tried robocopy but get the same message, it is fustrating see all the files but not being able to copy them, i will see if can recovery anything with the recovery apps

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-04-18T15:48:44+00:00

    I finally got to backup some important files but still trying to copy everything, the recovery apps were useless

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