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Long CHKDSK A Problem?

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by borginva

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My 400G drive in my P4 has been in CHKDSK mode (from the XP prompt "What to force a scheduled check on reboot?" from computer management) for over 12h and is at 46%. Is this okay for a 400G drive, or is this puppy getting cooked?
This PC has crashed on me so much since Nov, that I was forced to format in Jan. Now I am getting errors all over again.
I had done a lot of these checks in the past few months and took almost as long at times. Using all the tools on the Ultimate Boot CD, none found problems with it except for all the corrupted software, forcing that format. Actually, I ended up having to wipe the entire partition with FDISK in Jan.
Thanks.

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by borginva

Starting to look like that for some reason, although I get no errors in tests as you will read below.

by toivo talikka

Did you select the option to do surface scan, too? That can take quite a while.

by borginva

The default in XP does surface scans I believe. Even if it does not, it takes hours and days using diags where I do select surface, from the programs within the UCB. I think I am looking at a bad drive, but I only got it in summer 2005.

by toivo talikka

...you have to select it. Does not look good, you may have to use it as a boat anchor.

by borginva

I meant to say I click "Automatically fix errors" and "Scan for bad sectors" within properties.
I have done this scan before over a dozen times in the past 2 months and I get no errors. As with the UCB drive programs, no drive errors. No RAM errors either. It does seem though, something is wrong with my drive as you guys have stated. I am tending to agree. I may not be getting sector errors but it is not acting normal for sure.

by borginva

I reset the PC while it was still at 46% for almost 20h. It booted up very slowey and I found all of my icons under START>PROGRAMS were gone. After going through Explorer, I found the whole folder hidden. I fixed that. What up and how did that happen?

by toivo talikka

Were any bad sectors found or file.000 folders inserted into the drive?

Once I lost the program icons when a bad sector was right in the middle of the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.

by borginva

No scans have ever found anything wrong since the format in Jan. Before that, corrupted files left and right from a crash which forced the format. Since then, all drive scans find nothing wrong. The only thing recent is a whole day and still stuck at 46%. I think you guys are right because scans like this in the past have never taken so long. This is the first major scan in weeks and this happened.

by blue-knight

You are increasing your risks significantly.
Suggestion:
Step 1: Unplug drive and do not use anymore
Step 2: Find another system that you can use and connect drive that has plenty of space.
Step 3: Make a backup of any important data.

The longer you use this drive the worse things can become. Need to preserve data while still have access and move on to another drive. Save your data. Then see about getting PC back using a new drive.
Wait until it is operational, then copy data to it from PC where stored files.

Blue

by inachu

Always use the built in IDE self test which can be chosen from within the system BIOS menu.

The IDE self test checks the MTBF info on hard drives equiped with SM.A.R.T.

so if the IDE self test fails then you truly know you have a bad hard drive.

If test is a success then you can proceed to use chkdsk.

I upgraded my pc to a new pc case (ANTEC 900)
ever since this change my pc never crashes do to all the air blowing about keeping it cool.

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