The easiest way to scan, fix, and repair a drive is the CHKDSK command. This way, you can access and attempt to repair your storage device, and possibly even recover your documents. This guide ...

However, one of the issues that wasn’t documented, which users began reporting (spotted by the Planet3DNow and Borncity), was that of a problem with the chkdsk error-checking utility.

In this section, we are going to use Microsoft Defender. With the help of the CHKDSK command, we are going to fix the corrupted USB drive. This will fix all the bad sectors of your drive.

Right-click on it, select Run as Administrator, type “chkdsk C:” and press Enter. The scan will note the number of Bad Sectors, the part of the SSD that’s unusable. You can attempt to fix ...