Hard Disk Volume NTFS Structure Is Corrupt And Unusable
Feb 11, 2009
In my Event properties I getting a NTFS error that the file system structure is corrupt and unusable.
It tells me this is volume Device Hard disk Volume3
Question is, Which hard drive is that?
In disk manager I have the following
Disk 0 F: drive
Disk 1 D: drive
Disk 2 C: drive
Disk 3 H&P: drive
Disk 4 G: drive
Disk 5 M: drive
I guess that's kinda messed up..huh!
plus other removable cf card / sd card / mmc card drives
I need to Chkdsk the volume3.
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Code: C:>chkdsk /r d:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is NEW_C.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Deleting index entry SBEServer.exe in index $I30 of file 1153.
Deleting index entry SonicMCEBurnEngineIcon.png in index $I30 of file 1153.
Index verification completed..................
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