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
    2010-02-13T14:26:32+00:00

    It's that bad block, not good news.

    At this point you have serveral choices.

    1. If the laptop is still under warranty is to have the drive replaced.
    2. Replace the drive yourself.
    3. Split the drive into multiple partitions as shown below.

                            C:   (Windows)                         (Bad Blocks)         (Data, Doc, Photos, Etc)        Backup Disk

    101 MB             78.43 GB NTFS                          20GB                       190GB                             9.80 GB

    (Unallocated)     Healthy (System,boot.....)       (Unallocated)              Healthy (Primary)             Healthy (Primary Partition)

    The values shown above are approximate in size. It's possible the 78.43 GB can be made a little larger depending on where that bad block is. It's also possible the unallowcated space can be made significantly smaller depending on how many bad blocks there are and where they are located. Also you may want to consider making the 9.8GB backup partition larger.  

    As you already know this is a time consuming process but if you have the time I'll work with you till we squeez as much usable space out of the drive as possible and still leave the bad blocks isolated in an "Unallocated" area on the drive.

    JS

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-02-13T05:14:01+00:00

    For some reason when I try the full format at the end it says that it couldnt be format succesfully. Also after that this little window pops up asking me to format the drive so I dont do a Quick Format by unchecking it and then when that completes it said the same thing that it couldnt be formated succesfully.

    This is how disk management looks:

                              C:                       F: (this is the volume created after I followed your steps)     D: Backup Disk

    101 MB               78.43 GB NTFS              209.76 GB  RAW                                                       9.80 GB NTFS                                                                     

    Unallocated         Healthy (....)         Healthy (Primary Partition)                                                 Healthy (Primary Partition) 

    Also I was curious and right clicked F: and clicked on explore and it then said :                                            

     "F:\ is unaccessible

      The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable."

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-13T00:40:50+00:00

    Sorry for the delay, I'm not receiving any alerts when responces are posted.

    Thats good, now we know that bad block is part of the unallocated space. More specifically somewhere in the first 70GB (in round numbers).

    The next task is see if that bad block or blocks can be isolated or eliminated. This is going to be a multistep process.

    1. Open 'Disk Management' and right click on the 'Unallocated' space.
    2. Select 'New Simple Volume'.

    3) When the 'New Simple Volume Wizard'  windows is displayed click on the 'Next' button.

    1. There are three values displayed (Max, Min and Simple Volume size), the default value is to use all the unallocated space so leave the value unchanged and click 'Next'.
    2. You should see the drive letter that will be assigned, no need to change it, so click 'Next'.
    3. The Format Partition options should be set to the following: File System 'NTFS', Allocation unit size 'Default'. Volume Label 'New Volume' change the volume label to "Test Volume" (without the quotes). Uncheck 'Perform a quick format' (no check mark), Enable file and folder compression: leave this unchecked.

    Click the 'Next' button.

    1. Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard will show the options you selected, the most important should read 'Ouick Format: No. Click the 'Finish' button.

    This will start a "Full" format of the what was once unallocatede space and when complete (this will take a fairly long time to complete).

    For reference purposes if you install Windows 7 on a new hard drive it performs a 'Quick Format' which does not pick up/identify and fix bad blocks.

    The 'Full Format' you are now performing hopefully will pick up these bad blocks/sectors and mark them so they are no longer used.

    Now when the format completes close out the 'Auto Play' window.

    You should now see your new logical drive ("Test Volume") and the size. Make a note of the drive letter that was assigned. (Example: E:)

    Close 'Disk Management', run check disk on the new (Test Volume) partition E: and report back if check disk passes or fails and what the % number is?

    Good Luck:

    JS

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-12T23:05:44+00:00

    Hey, Check Disk completed perfectly! Is there anything else I have to do?

    This is how Disk Management looks right now:

                                 C:                                                                    Backup Disk (D:)

    101 MB                  78.43 GB                209.76 GB                            9.80 GB

    Unallocated            Healthy (.....)          Unallocated                           Unallocated

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