CHKDSK Taking Forever - Minor HDD
Nov 4, 2008
Ok so heres the deal with what hapened to me yesterday night.I come home from work my pc is always on 24/7 and so i just open the screen to see i have a write error says something about windows duno what system file that had a write error something to do with the nero folder then i click ok and i have 10 million errors to click ok to after wards and it says in a lil ! sign pop up down that i had a write failure that may have been caused by a system failure or something. when im done clicking the oks to the errors my pc wont respond only the mouse would move the rest was frozen. So i restart and get the windows splashscreen loading forever
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Oct 19, 2006
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I did a chkdsk on startup , and am wondering if windows keeps a record of what it found during the process, as I would like to analyse it
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Feb 22, 2005
I was trying to defrag my aunt's comuter witht the Windows (xp home) built in defragger. I got an error message that said to run scan disk or chkdsk.
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Aug 20, 2006
I have been getting this error lately
something like.... the file or directory -- --
is corrupt and unreadable please run the chkdsk utlity
I am running CleanCachev3.5
is this progam unusable? I got it off that evergreen geek program
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Nov 22, 2006
I keep getting and error message Windows - Corrupt File - The file or directory C:|$MFT is corrupt and unreadable. Please run Chkdsk utility. I have run the utility many times and get nothing but verification of files. I can't turn on either /f or /r. which would hopefully correct the problem. I am using Windows XP Home.
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Dec 17, 2006
every time i boot my computer chkdsk runs on my #2 hdd i've run maxtor utilities and everything is fine .
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Feb 25, 2007
exactly what do I put in the "run" part to check the below error message?.
C:PROGRA~1common FilesAOLACSSinf.ini
is corrupt and unreadable please run the Chkdisk utility.
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Apr 25, 2007
To bring you up to date here is what I said last time
MY ORIGINAL POST
I am running Win XP SP2.
The last 3 times I turned on the computer it put itself through CHKDSK.
Each time finding loads of problems with $130 also loads of orphaned files.
What is going on? How do I fix it?
Ray
HERE IS THE ADVICE I RECEIVED
Go to
All Programs>Accessories>Command prompt and type
chkdsk /r (there is a space before /)
Enter
Reboot and it will run
NOW
I followed the advice and it all worked perfectly for the next 2 times that I turned on my computer. This morning I turned on and it was back to going through CHKDSK again.
I have up to date AVG anti virus.
I ran a full system check. Nothing found.
I have up to date Spybot.
I ran a full system check. Nothing found.
I hace Comodo Firewall. Up to date
I ran Registry Mechanic.
What else can I do?
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May 7, 2007
I am using an IBM Thinkpad R40 that runs XP. It was running extremely slow, so I asked someone for some ideas. The first thing they told me to do was run a CHKDSK. (start run ect.) and walked me through the scheduling process. Well, when I rebooted, it took 4 plus hours, to tell me an error had occured and I am stuck looking at a blue screen. If I let it sit long enough, it repeats the process. I have attempted to cancel the check, but again it freezes on the blue screen. I have attempted to start it in safe-mode with the same result. How do I get to windows?
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Nov 2, 2007
I am getting an error in the cmd when I performed a CHKDSK
The error is WINDOWS discovered free space area marked as allocated in MFT
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Nov 14, 2007
can i stop a checking file system on C ?
CHKDSK is running can i stop it at 35% completed?
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Feb 28, 2008
I had something happen to my computer after I did a �CHKDSK /f /r�. When I went to use excel, and clicked on my tab key, the cursor went backwards. Then I tried to select a file and it would not let me select one file, it hi-lighted all the files. I finally closed out excel and tried to restore my computer to an earlier time thinking I got a virus. I did not open any e-mails that day, and it was running ok the night before. The restore froze and would not work. I just shut down my computer at the master switch and re-booted. Everything was ok after that. Excel worked fine, and all was good. I ran my AVG virus program to check for a virus, it found nothing. I thought it was a coincidence that this happened after the CHKDSK /f /r parms. Does anyone know what happened? The reason I did a CHKDSK /f /r was my Perfect Disk program did not defrag completely and the vendor told me to do this to do an offline defrag. I tried an offline defrag before, but I got errors on my drive and could not do it, that�s why they told me to use the CHHDSK /f /r. Also, is there anyway that I can put something in my restore to not let �ANY� virus come in so I can restore in case I got a virus? I use xp professional
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Feb 29, 2008
When runnning chkdsk/f upon boot , is there a way to cause the process to pause long enough to read the results ?
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Apr 7, 2008
I recently had a virus and have an error of "Unmountable Boot Volume" when starting my computer. I googled it and found out that if I type in "Chkdsk /r" Into the recovery console it will fix it. But I was unable to find out whether chkdsk /r effects any of my files on the computer. Will this delete them or keep them untouched? Or is there any other way to fix my problem without losing my files?
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Oct 3, 2008
I have been running chkdsk /f and it continues to find errors, should I keep running it until it reports no more errors? I am doing this to try to speed up the computer it is an older pc that runs very slow.
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