Trying to fix Chkdsk from freezing at stage 5 of 5 when scanning and trying to recover bad sectors and fixing file system errors

Anonymous
2010-02-07T02:30:02+00:00

About a while ago I ran chkdsk to check and recover bad sectors and fix system files and it then froze at 43% on stage 5 of 5. I left it on through out the night and I went to school and came back it was still at 43%. I then manually shut down the computer and ever since I have been trying to fix the problem. It was the second time I ran chkdsk on this pc while having windows 7 I usually run chkdsk every month or so to make sure everything is functioning right. After my problem occured I have tried so many things i have ran spinrite,I have reinstalled windows, I have tried to run chkdsk on safe mode, I have tried sfc/scannow, and chkdsk /p and all of these things did not fix the problem. Chkdsk /p was the only thing that didnt even try to fix anything because it said invalid parameter. Also when I reinstalled windows 7 on my pc then chkdksk froze at 49% on stage 5 of 5.  I even ran diagnostics from the bios and I use Seagate Seatools and both diagnostics said my hard drive was perfectly fine. I also  tried running chkdsk from the windows 7 cd and for some reason it completed in less than 2 hours. I then ran chkdsk from the pc and it then froze again this made me think that there had to be something wrong with my pc. So I was wondering how can I get chkdsk to complete perfectly from my pc again instead of using the windows 7 cd each time.

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Anonymous
2010-03-16T18:13:35+00:00

OK, here is the link the the article: Windows 7 - How to repair Bad Sectors reported by chkdsk

http://www.pagestart.com/win7chkdskbs01.html

Read it first and post any questions you may have before you start.

JS

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-02-09T00:17:01+00:00

    Find the make and model for your hard drive, then go to the drive manufacture's web site and download/install their drive diagnostic tools.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-02-08T23:09:05+00:00

    Im sorry to say J W Stuart but for some reason your suggestion didnt work...Chkdsk froze again but this time it froze at 46%.

    What should I do now?Did I do something wrong I followed your steps one by one. Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-07T04:37:15+00:00

    Thanks for your answer J W Stuart I will try chkdsk and see if my problem has been fixed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-07T03:54:40+00:00
    1. Open Disk Management. (Start/Computer/Manage/Disk Management)
    2. Note the size in GB for the partition Windows is installed on.
    3. Right click on the Windows partition (typically C:) and select ‘Shrink Volume’. Windows will determine how much space is available to shrink.
    4. In the ‘Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB’ box enter the maximum value allowed
    5. Click the ‘Shrink’ button. When the process has completed you will see ‘Unallocated’
    6. Right click on the Windows partition and select ‘Extend Volume…’.
    7. Click on the ‘Next’ button in the ‘Extend Volume Wizard’ window. The ‘Maximum available space in MB’ value should be the same as in step 4. Click the ‘next’ button to reclaim the unallocated space you created in step #4. Click the ‘Finish’ button.
    8. Disk Management should now report the size of the Windows partition equal to what you observed in step #2.

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