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Installed new SSD and HD, Windows keeps "finding errors" and ends up corrupting the new drives!

Anonymous
2019-08-17T17:20:19+00:00

So here's the deal: I bought a brand new Sold State Drive and Hard Drive to upgrade my PC's storage.

Upon installing each one to my computer, going through Disk Management to initialize the drives and formatting them, windows immediately notifies me that it has detected errors with my drives.

I restart my PC, go through troubleshooting (chkdsk Command Prompt, etc.), try to repair the errors. Nothing works and windows believes my drives are corrupted now.

I contact Samsung and get the drives repaired, even use different SATA cables and re-install them to the computer, only to have Windows say the drives have errors and are re-corrupted.

Clearly something is wrong with my computer and not the drives, right? Please help, I want to use these drives!

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-08-18T05:29:45+00:00

    You think you can give me a quick rundown on how to test this successfully when I get the case in?

    You re-run the chkdsk command, making sure to specify the correct drive letter.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-17T20:10:45+00:00

    I followed your instructions and after running the CHKDSK, I received the following error:

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-17T17:38:44+00:00

    Hi, DiabeticMonkeys

    My name is Aracely, I am an Independent Advisor. I would love to help you today.

    I recommend checking the RAM and hard drive

    1.- First, close all the programs and files that you have open.

    2.- Right-click on the Windows Start menu and select Control Panel. Then choose the category System and security. On the next screen, look for Administrative Tools on the right and click on that option.

    3.- One of those tools is the Windows memory diagnostic. Double click on it to open it.

    4.- The diagnosis gives two options to choose from. See what each one does and click on the one you prefer:

    Restart now and check for problems. It is better to select in most cases. Be sure to close all programs as I requested before. The PC will restart itself by choosing this option. Right after, the check also starts automatically.

    Then check the hard drive.

    1. Open a raised command prompt (press the Windows + X button at the same time, then select Command Prompt (Admin))
    2. Enter the following command and replace the X with the drive letter you wish to scan: "chkdsk / f / r X:
    3. Press the enter key, the command prompt will now start CHKDSK.

    Let me know if the information has been helpful in solving your problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-17T18:28:34+00:00
    1. Enter the following command and replace the X with the drive letter you wish to scan: "chkdsk / f / r X:

    This command will not run:

    chkdsk / f / r X: 

    It should look like so:

    chkdsk   /f  /r  X:

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-08-17T17:37:49+00:00

    Clearly something is wrong with my computer and not the drives, right?

    Maybe. You will know for sure when connecting them to a different PC. You could use a 3.5" USB case for this purpose, costing about $20.00. They have a SATA connector inside.

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