Assassin X Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) So I was working on a friends laptop (Win 7). I haven't really done to much on laptops and forgot they shut off after a certain amount of time. Well the laptop was easily fixed (he had forgotten his password). So I ran scandisk and defrag for him just to make sure he got it back in great condition. But when I ran scandisk for the second harddrive (D:) it stopped very early on for some reason (maybe because I closed the screen?). It must have restart the computer.Well now when I go to access the D: drive it says "D:\ is not accessible Access is denied". I even tried to rerun the scandisk but now it says windows can't access the drive. Any ideas?----EDIT----Weird. I booted up the laptop this morning and its fine now. Edited January 30, 2015 by Assassin X Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 Some times scandisk is more trouble than it's worth, I only ever run it if I think the hd is pretty well screwed and then it usually won't fix anything, I have yet to see it ever repair any bad sectors. There are a lot of third party software programs that are much better and faster. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 The mystery of hdds. I have a dying 1.5tb in raid 1 that I've been too lazy to replace since I never use it. Every other reboot it'll either show up or it won't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin X Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Sorry for the late reply. What are some of the other faster programs? I may use them on my own computer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Sorry for the late reply. What are some of the other faster programs? I may use them on my own computer. To check if a disk is actually dying, HD Tune isn't bad. You can read the SMART results with the free version and the error scan is pretty spot-on for pointing out disks with bad sectors. It won't fix anything, but it's a reasonably quick check to see if your drives are in good health. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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