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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)

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I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log: TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error DESCRIPTION: The device, \Device\Harddisk3\DR3, has a bad block. Pretty standard fare if this was a physic…

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It's always possible that there is no bad block. I had that happen before. Running chkdsk /b on the drive fixed that problem. But the VM would need to be offline for that. Testing both the real drive and the virtual one could be done with Windows ru…

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