Run disk error check on NTFS file?

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Published on 2014-08-22T20:58:07Z Indexed on 2014/08/22 22:24 UTC
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I have a feeling that my system hard drive is dying. Benchmark kind of enforces it. Here is the benchmark of my system hard drive during low system activity:

System hard drive benchmark

And here is the benchmark of backup drive:

Backup hard drive benchmark

Furthermore, there are some files which I just can't touch because I get CRC errors and the hard drive activity spikes to 100% with operating speeds less than 1 MB/s while working with such files.

I haven't yet tried swapping SATA cable as I have read this might cause the problems. Anyway, I would like to run some tests on specific clustsers where those files I am interested in are stored.

I don't want to do the full chkdsk because it takes a very long time.

I would like to either find the utility which executes the disk check directly on the clusters where the file belongs or a couple utilities where one tells me the cluster locations and another can check just those locations.

How do I check and possibly fix disk errors where the files I am interested in are stored?

Edit: S.M.A.R.T. info:

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