Good day,

I was busy decrypting a drive when there was a power failure. After the power was restored, I was happy to see that the decryption process continued once I turned on the PC. It was short lived, as the decryption subsequently paused stating: "This disk has one or more errors. Run chkdsk /r"

The problem is that when I try to run chkdsk, it gives me the following error: "The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."

This is an internal drive (not the boot drive) that was formatted as NTFS and then bitlocker was applied to the entire drive (not just the part that was used)

Please advise how I can get the decryption to resume, or how to get CHKDSK to scan the drive. At this stage I can access the drive, but then it gives me a "cyclic redundancy check" error.

• Edited by Willie Koegelenberg Sunday, August 30, 2015 6:56 PM spelling mistake

First thing I'd try would be repair-bde

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff829851.aspx

Yeah, I have tried that, which simply opens the bitlocker window that states the decryption is paused because of the errors.

I think I will need something that can fix the errors, even though the drive is in RAW format. In other words, something that will do the job that chkdsk is supposed to do.

• Edited by Willie Koegelenberg 17 hours 28 minutes ago

Yeah, I have tried that, which simply opens the bitlocker window that states the decryption is paused because of the errors.

I think I will need something that can fix the errors, even though the drive is in RAW format. In other words, something that will do the job that chkdsk is supposed to do.

• Edited by Willie Koegelenberg Monday, August 31, 2015 1:55 PM