HDD [SOLVED] New WD 4TB My Book has filesystem errors?

[Pollux]

I just got a new Western Digital 4 Terabyte My Book External Desktop Drive, did a filesystem scan and got this:

 

Help?

 

Fix Filesystem or Reformat?

Edited August 31, 2016 by Pollux
More info.

[Pollux]

Or do I need to return this drive?

 

[JohnFlower]

Do what it says, but use /f. If that fails, use testdisk to re-write the partition table.

[Pollux]

6 minutes ago, JohnFlower said:

Do what it says, but use /f. If that fails, use testdisk to re-write the partition table.

I did and got this:
 

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.
No further action is required.

 

Ran chkdsk /f again and it found no problems.

 

Edited August 19, 2016 by Pollux
More info.

[Cesario]

Just to clarify did you just run the command as is from command prompt?

chkdsk /f

as the above command will do it from your root drive.

You will need to specify the drive letter for your external drive

chkdsk D: /f

 

[Pollux]

21 minutes ago, Cesario said:

Just to clarify did you just run the command as is from command prompt?

chkdsk /f

as the above command will do it from your root drive.

You will need to specify the drive letter for your external drive

chkdsk D: /f

 

Already fixed it.

Thanks for chiming in though.