Paragon Backup and Recovery 0x12016 not resolving with chkdsk

The facts:

Dell Dimension 8300
250 Gig drive created with two drives paired with RAID (as from factory)
Windows XP
Paragon Backup & Recovery Free

Keep getting the "Can't read volume data" error 0x12016. Ran chkdsk /r three times so far. How many times before I need to think of trying something else?

Thanks all!!

 

Does chkdsk keep repairing - or is it all clear?

That sounds like a windows VSS error.

Can you try Paragon Hot backup instead? Under Tools >Settings

Otherwise - if you can make an image using Paragon boot disc - that would indicate a problem with windows itself.

 

Thanks for the answer SIW2,

I spent some time in Event Viewer and found that after three or four runs of chkdsk, I still have 4k of bad sectors. No recent VSS errors (did get one when I ran microsoft backup a few weeks ago).

Ran Western Digital (WD) Disk diagnostics and it is offering to repair my bad sectors...the caveat being that it will delete what is in those sectors.

Do I risk it on a 250 gig disk drive? It's "only" 4k!! Is there a disk repair utility with a lower loss rate, or even a save rate?

Haven't tried the Paragon Hot setting; that's next before the disk repair.

 

Try Paragon Hot backup and see if it will do the job.

Otherwise - you need to repair those sectors.

As far as I know - there isn't any alternative to losing what is in the sectors that are repaired.