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The drive was working very well last night but today, it shows up in My Computer, it lists the folders on the drive, but when I attempt to open a folder, I receive a message that it can't access it. So I thought I'd run an sfc scan on it but I don't want to run the scan on all of my internal hard drives at the same time, or not even my C drive.
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Answer accepted by question author
Hi Denise
SFc is System File Checker, it is only used to scan system files, not a hard drive
If you want you check a drive for errors, run these commands (replace C with appropriate driver letter)
chkdsk C: /f
then when that completes, run this command:
chkdsk C: /r
When that completes, close Command prompt . ..
Answer accepted by question author
Hi Denise
You need to change the drive to T in the command prompt.
Open Start, type: CMD
Right click CMD
Click Run as administrator
Type: cd t:\
Hit Enter
Normally, you don't need to run sfc on a external drive, you can run check disk though.
At the Command Prompt, type: chkdsk /r /f
Hit Enter
When you restart your system, your computer will be scanned for errors and attempts will be made to correct them.
The chkdsk couldn't be completed. Is the hdd a gonner?
