Error performing inpage operation
“Error performing inpage operation.”
Last night I started having a problem with an external drive which stores a bunch of semi-important information. If you’ve ever had a drive problem before, you know this can be quite stressful.
The drive is a USB2 Maxtor One Touch external drive. I tried to access the data on the drive with two different computers and came up empty. One computer couldn’t even find the drive.
I could not run a check disk via the regular ways since the PCs would not access the drive, so I ended up figuring out how to run it from the command prompt. There’s not a lot of easily found information online to solve this relatively simple (at least in my case) problem. This is why I’ve put up this page. Hopefully this will help someone.
Here is the process I used to fix the disk:
- Start > Run > type cmd.
- Click [OK] to get a command prompt.
- Type in chkdsk e: /r (replace e: with the letter of your external hard drive).
Your computer will run check disk and hopefully fix the errors on the drive allowing you to re-access it once again. Hope this helps!
P.S. If for some reason it doesn’t, here’s another way you can potentially see the errors its having.
- Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer
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