I am helping a friend with a problem on his Toshiba notebook. Booting up takes quite a while, and eventually the computer freezes, ie keyboard and mouse are unresponsive. Booting to Safe Mode brings a BSOD with a comment to run CHKDSK /F.
I have placed the hard drive in a USB housing and connected to my computer. CHKDSK /F has been run on the USB drive twice – no problem reported.
I can reboot my PC and select the USB as the boot drive. The BSOD with “CHKDSK /F” comment is displayed in both Safe Mode and “standard” boot mode.
Is it possible to run SFC on the external USB drive? I tried from the C: drive to run “sfc e: /scannow” and got the SFC help response.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
