Lenovo hard drive has parameter incorrect message - Page 1
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author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2022, 04:32:47 pm
content: any suggestions is welcomeWin 10 Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop failed to bootno hard drive activity light on start up.the 1 TB hard drive is 85% to 90% fullblank screen so no video outputno USB keyboard shift lock light, its not workingbut USB mouse has its red tracking lightCD DVD drive bay is working ok.removed the Lenovo hard drive and put it in to a USB3 SATA HDD dockplugged it into another PC to access the files , but get an unknown drive question mark!click on it and get drive _ parameter incorrectthen get a not responding message in windows. with the dive icon & question mark, disappearingthen reappearing as windows try's to open the drive menu.finally I had to reboot the another PC just to get the USB port's working againas the hard drive USB3 dock had disabled how the USB port's work.any suggestions on how to access the files. from a 1 TB hard drive with a parameter incorrect message coming from it.is this just a Lenovo problem or a bad hard drive?prior to the failure I had copyed over 60 GB of data OFF the hard drive to a portable HDD to free up space.but had not deleted the data still remaining on the Lenovo hard drive.I do not know of windows 10 generatestemporary fileswhen copying a large amount data off the HDD? if so windows may have made drive C 100% fullcrashing the system.

author: Lindley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2022, 07:45:03 pm
content: Hi,This might help ... ?https://www.easeus.com/storage-media-recovery/the-parameter-is-incorrect-on-external-hard-drive.html

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2022, 07:51:41 pm
content: Try a physical SATA connector and some Linux rescue disk, less likely to screw something up without the dock in between and windows doing windows things.

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2022, 06:40:12 am
content: thanksmaybe driver issues or a virus infectionit is odd that the Lenovo motherboard fails to generate any video output, not even a setup menu?as both mouse and keyboard use the USB I do not know how to make the motherboard show a BIOS setup menu?need more time to

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2022, 12:29:54 pm
content: update-looked into using Chkdsk, however before trying it , thought I would give the USB cable and the sockets a re-plugging & rerouting.fixed the parameter incorrect error simply by re-plugging & rerouting the USB 3 from the front of the host PC case going to the external HDD hard drive dockto a USB 3 socket on the rear of the same PC case, a USB 3 socket off the motherboard. make all the difference, just 40cm of USB cable inside the case.I have had this problem before. USB cable plugs ,sockets and external HDD's. just remove the offending cable. to keep the link as short as possible!in this case a socket on the front of the host PC was too far away from the motherboard output. USBcablesso new with the HDD working on the second PC. I recovered all the files from it ,deleted 20% of the files in it to free up some space. just incase windows has painted its self into a corner.as for the Lenovo thinkcentre it still has no video outputand failed to boot with its HDD was returned to it.pulling , reseating the ram stick and repluging all the cable's inside the case failed to fix the problem.its looking like a motherboard failure in the Lenovo.if anybody is interested here are some images.