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chkdsk, SeaTools, and "does not have enough space to replace bad clusters"

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Mar 15, 202658938 views
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Problem

When I tried to do a Windows Vista Complete PC Backup, I received an error message that blathered about bad sectors. Then, when I ran chkdsk /r on the destination drive, this is what I got: Yet, when I ran the SeaTools short & long generic tests on the Seagate disk, I didn't receive any errors. I k…

Error Output

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /R E:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Desktop Backup.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
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Fix for: chkdsk, SeaTools, and "does not have enough space to replace bad clusters"

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The free drive space and the drive space chkdisk uses are two different things. Each hard disk has some extra unallocated space which is used as replacement space for bad sectors. That space may not be used for anything else and as far as user (of a…

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