chkdsk

[clemos]

I want to defrag a PC but I needed to run chkdsk before I could. So I'm running it now but it's been sat at 1% on stage 2 of 3 for about an hour. Has anyone else had this? Or know of the problem and solution?

Thanks.

[FlasH]

Hmmm might be best to boot from a windows disk and run a chkdsk /r in the recovery console instead of running it at boot up through windows.

[clemos]

Ok cheers.

[Lorem-Ipsum]

I have had that happen before. Took almost 24 hours to complete.

I prefer Piriforms Defraggler for HDD defrags though.

http://www.piriform.com/defraggler

[Smifis]

Defragglers good.

chkdsk is always good to keep your hard drives in check, windows obviously thinks that it's due for one :D

[michaelkenward]

Are you running chkdsk within Windows? If so, work out how to make it chkdsk on boot.

I forget how that works, but Google should help.

If not, boot from a windows disk or a bootable floppy/CD/DVD/USB with the appropriate software on board.

[Smifis]

It goes along the lines of this...


chkdsk /f

'Ah, I see you want to scan your drive for errors, well, you'll have to schedule that to happen on the next boot,

Would you like to do that? [Y/N]'

[clemos]

I have had that happen before. Took almost 24 hours to complete.

I prefer Piriforms Defraggler for HDD defrags though.

http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
24 hours?!:eek:


It goes along the lines of this...


chkdsk /f

'Ah, I see you want to scan your drive for errors, well, you'll have to schedule that to happen on the next boot,

Would you like to do that? [Y/N]'
Yep that's how it's done.

[jbromley]

24 hours?!:eek:


Yep that's how it's done.

24 Hours isn't that long - you wanna see a Defrag that takes 4 days ... Try a server with 250Gb of data, and not enough memory!

[clemos]

Well the I turned it off last night, ran chkdsk today and it took 5-10 mins. :)