Any tool that repairs a corrupted VDI file?

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mpack
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Re: Any tool that repairs a corrupted VDI file?

Post by mpack »

Well done, thanks for reporting back. Hopefully you did something to ensure that those bad sectors are marked as bad.
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Re: Any tool that repairs a corrupted VDI file?

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mpack wrote:Hopefully you did something to ensure that those bad sectors are marked as bad.
Can you elaborate on that a bit.
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Re: Any tool that repairs a corrupted VDI file?

Post by mpack »

I already did, in a previous post. If you suspect bad sectors then you need to run a thorough sector scan with chkdsk, not just a filesystem consistency check. The latter will find nothing. A bad sector scan will cause those sectors to be tagged, stopping Windows from using them again in future.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows ... ows-vista/
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Re: Any tool that repairs a corrupted VDI file?

Post by Chaudhry »

mpack wrote:I already did, in a previous post. If you suspect bad sectors then you need to run a thorough sector scan with chkdsk.
Oh yes. That I've done already. It didn't catch anything. I'll look into it again.
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