{"id":141,"date":"2019-11-29T07:11:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T07:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.techenutia.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2019-11-29T07:11:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T07:11:38","slug":"how-to-fix-faulty-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manorinfinity.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/29\/how-to-fix-faulty-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix Faulty Hard drives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Hard drive isn&#8217;t working anymore? Well the most probable cause for a hard disk failure is Corruption. Hard disk gets corrupt and can be fixed easily just by your windows PC or any third party app. The fault occurs on two levels &#8211; Software level which you will learn to fix here, and the hardware level which is quite a mess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we begin fixing procedure do check the basics- Check for loose cables or screws, try it on another computer, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\">Now if nothing works its time to open your CMD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Run CMD in admin mode by right clicking on it in start menu.<\/li><li>Now type &#8220;<strong>chkdsk<\/strong> C:\/F\/X\/R&#8221; where C is the drive name<\/li><li>Now press enter the process shall begin.<\/li><li>Wait and the system will ask you for restart type Y<\/li><li>Wait till the system utility repairs your hard drive<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases these steps are enough for you to repair Your hard drive. But in cases when you this doesn&#8217;t fix things you need to perform a format. You can perform format from the windows explorer, full format is recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to format the disk via CMD then follow these commands-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open CMD in admin mode<\/li><li>Type <strong>diskpart<\/strong><\/li><li>Now type <strong>select disk X<\/strong> here X is the number of the disk you wish to format.<\/li><li>type <strong>clean<\/strong> and press enter to wipe all data.<\/li><li>Now you need to create a new partition on the drive to do so <\/li><li>Type <strong>create partition primary<\/strong><\/li><li>Now type <strong>format fs=ntfs<\/strong><\/li><li>Now assign a letter with <strong>assign letter = G<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is it. If your drive is still not working then you should probably consider it taking to a repair centre. Maybe you should get a new one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Hard drive isn&#8217;t working anymore? Well the most probable cause for a hard disk failure is Corruption. 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