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[Zizbuka]

I have 3 internal hard drives in my Windows 8x64 PC. C: for OS, D: for Steam, and E: for other games. Windows will no longer access D:, when I try to open the drive I get "D:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect.". Through Device Manager, I can get to the properties, and is says "This device is working properly". I go to the Volumes tab, click on the Populate button and it shows:

Volume Capacity
(D 2861459 MB

When I go to Disk Management, it shows this, with 100% free:
(D
2794.39 GB RAW
Healthy (Primary Partition)

It's a 3TB drive. I have dual boot with Linux, boot to Linux and can access the drive with no problem, and am able to write to the disk. Only thing I did was remove my Steam *.blob files, because I was having a problem. My downloads would keep pausing. I wonder if somehow the drive is locked in Windows?

Any help?

I ran "chkdsk /F /R /X D:", but it sat on "verifying usn journal" for over 10 hours (I left it run over night).

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /F /R /X D:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Steam.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
1668608 file records processed.
File verification completed.
10 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
1825950 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
78672 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...

 

[kehs]

Go the manufacturer's website and download their disk checker utility. You'll probably have to make a bootable cd/usb drive. It'll diagnose your drive properly, unlike checkdisk.

You can also track down some SMART software to do a quick check inside of windows.

Chances are the drive is on it's way out and it can't find any more good sectors to fix bad ones.

 

[Dishwalla]

Your drive is probably going out. Had this problem on an old Sony Viao, it wouldn't let me go into the drive, wouldn't let me see how full the drive was, wouldn't even let me rip songs off a CD onto the computer. Ended up having to copy all the files I could off the computer and getting rid of it.

 

[diehard]

fsutil usn deletejournal /d d:


do it

.. maybe first try a chkdsk when you know no programs can use its usn journal. aka safe mode...

 

[ronito]

it doesn't want the d?

 

[DrSlek]

Whenever I come across a drive that cannot be read anymore (which is quite frequently in my job), I restart the computer and boot into Ubuntu from a live Linux USB.

I find that usually Linux can read failing disks that Windows has trouble with and I can copy the drive contents to an external drive. If Linux cannot access the drive/partition, then it's usually a sign than something has gone seriously wrong.....in my experience, anyway.

 

[Dr.Acula]

D:

Spoiler

Try clicking My Computer and selecting Manage, then going to the drive under "storage" "disk management" and changing the letter.