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Error Running Inpage Operation

I ran in to this issue when a client brought me a dead PC. It would try to boot but go to BSD. The drive contained information and family photos of which there were no copies. Attempting to read the drive from an external enclosure with give the "error running inpage operation" error.

In this case of the "error running inpage operation" is that there may be a corrupted file system on the drive preventing it being read. This is a good indicator that the drive may be failing too. It could also be caused from improperly shutting down the PC.

The Fix:

  1. I removed the drive from the pc and connected it through my external drive bay on the master PC.
  2. On my master PC I clicked on Run and entered: cmd and clicked enter. This brings up the command prompt window.
  3. Once in the command window I typed "chkdsk e: /f"  at the prompt without the quotes. e is the letter of the external drive as shown in the My Computer window where all other drives are viewed. The /f command allows the chkdsk utility to fix errors. Running the utility without the /f will find and report errors only.
  4. After clicking Enter, chkdsk will run a check of the disk file system and correct any errors.