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Johannes
Asked: 2016-06-16 14:46:38 +0800 CST

ChkDsk Timout during repair attempt

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I started chkdsk H: /F /R /X as admin on a SATA harddisk (WD Caviar Green 1TB) that I mounted using an USB adapter.

After a while the operation timed out with the message 

The specified I/O on \Device\Harddisk3\DR60 was not
completed before the time-out period expired.

The drive has severe problems but I managed to get most of the data from it copying them in small chunks. I want to repair it now using chkdsk to see if I can et a couple more files from it. The drive has photos of a friend of mine and they are important to her.

My question is if there is any way I can repair the harddrive to the point where I can recover the files I may have missed.

Is everything done that can be done once chkdsk times out?

hard-drive timeout chkdsk sata

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    No. Since the drive is damaged, it has bad sectors and all I/O operations fail on those bad sectors. chkdsk can only repair logical filesystem issues, not physical issues.

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