I have a WDC WD10EADS-65M2B0 (SATA) drive that is experiencing problems: Windows 7 drive image will not complete. CHKDSK finds numerous errors. LifeGuard Extended Test finds bad sectors. Event Manager describes several instances of repeatedly trying to access certain files. Some of those files are…

The ntfsprogs project had a utility (ntfscluster) that could identify which file was associated with a particular logical sector or cluster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfsprogs https://web.archive.org/web/20080522140207/http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsprogs ntfscluster - Given a clus…

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Blockhead October 10, 2014, 5:08am 4

Thanks, fzabkar. These look promising. I will let you know what I find.