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chkdsk on external usb drive
goombawaho, Thank you again for your response. When I view the drive in device manager, it clearly states it is a Buffalo External HDD USB device (under Display Name and Friendly Name). I did look for a diagnostic tool for buffalo external usb drives (this one is model HD-CE1.0TIU2)...- oldwww
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows servers
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chkdsk on external usb drive
Thank you for your reply goombawahao. If I choose to run a chkdsk from a windows 7 desktop on this usb drive (after taking it offline and physically removing it), would that cause issues? Sorry if this seems a 'duh' question. I am very hesitant to run it on the windows 2003 r2 server; it is...- oldwww
- Post #3
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows servers
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chkdsk on external usb drive
Hello I have a rather simple, basic question regarding running chkdsk on an buffalo 1TB external drive attached to our windows 2003 r2 server... used for backup data. This drive has been throwing eventID 7 repeatedly during the backup process; the question is this: would it be safe to take...- oldwww
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows servers
