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Dave009:
Hello ALL! I have been using this tool for eons it seems and it really does wonders...

So I am on Win 10 and have tried a number of ways to get my friends HDD to run AIO as an external drive.

It's a 3.5 running win 7 So just short of swapping out one of my HDD and changing the boot menu I am looking to fix it with AIO externally.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

I am sure this has been discussed in here before but as the newest guy I'm not sure of how to get this issue to come up as a search result.

Thanks much for taking the time to look and offer suggestions.

Boggin:
If you can plug it in and it gets a drive letter, then open a Command Prompt (Admin) and enter chkdsk x: /r where x is the drive letter.

This will run in the cmd window without the need for a reboot to dismount the volume, but if the HDD has bad sectors then it needs imaging ASAP so as to load onto a new HDD.

However, Windows needs to be booted up on the drive for the repair program to run so you won't be able to run it remotely.

Dave009:
Thank you Boggin!

Yes it shows up with a drive letter I tried chkdsk x: /r and got no results.

I'm guessing I need to make and image of the disc , then format and reinstall win 7 on it for my friend...

Does that sound about right and who's imaging software do you guys like?

Boggin:
Did you use the drive letter instead of the x ?

When I plug an ext. drive into this laptop, it comes up as Drive E: so the cmd for that would be chkdsk e: /r

EDIT - I'd put the HDD back into the Win 7 machine to see if it will boot after running the chkdsk, providing it isn't too far gone with bad sectors.

Dave009:
Funny you should mention that yes I put the wrong drive letter in earlier this am just ran it now
and got the results but they jump off the screen so fast I can't read them :-)

I would but he sent this over from Oregon....

Would it be wise to put it into my tower [5 HDD] and make it the boot drive to test it?

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