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

I did what you said and it worked. I ran the backup and I have checked if the Rescue Manger Cd I created can find the backup and that also worked. I am ready for the next step to this.

Do you think you will be able to post the steps early in the morning tomorrow at least or by the end of this day?

Just take that 30.00GB of free space located at the end of the drive and use it to create the backup partition. 30GB will due for storing the Image Backup.

Format it as NTFS.

At this point just wait untill I post the documentation.

The one thing you can do is create a "System Repair" disk.

Just click Start end enter the words:   system repair

You should see an option labeled 'Create a System Repair Disc, click on that and follow the instructions.

I have some commitments this weekend especially tommorow so you may not here from me for a while.

How close am I to success, well the technique I tried worked but not without some problems which must be ironed out.

This process is broken down into about 50 plus steps that you will perform so it must be as near to perfect as possible or you will end up with a non bootable computer.

JS

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I tried your suggestion but something went wrong because I did something before I read this post. I deleted the 40GB partition and put it to the Unallocated Space. I also deleted the backup partition I created. Later on I tried to shrink the (T:) partition. After I shrinked the partition the 30GB did not go to unallocated space instead it became free space. After that I thought I did something wrong so I deleted everything and made everything unallocated space and then made the 9.80 partition and tried everthing again and the same thing happened.

This is how it looks right now:

                           C:                                                Test (T:)                  

100MB                  118.42 GB            9.80 GB             139.76 GB NTFS         30.00GB

Healthy(...)            Healthy(...)          Unallocated         Healthy (...)              Free Space

By the ways I did a quick format on Test. Also Test and the 30.00 GB free space have a dark green box around both of them and when I look at the legend at the bottom of the window it says the when it is dark green it is an Extended partition.

Also midix, I created the Ultimate Boot CD but the problem is that I dont know what would be the rightful utility to try and fix the bad blocks.

No I don't and Windows 7 can only do a 'Quick' format so the bad block will not be eliminated. I though you already ran Seatools and had no success.

Now here is how to create a larger backup partition.

1. Using the 'Unallocated space create a new partition and assign it a drive letter (T: for example) and a label (Test)
2. Delete the existing 'Backup' (D:) parition. Make it 'Unallocated'.
3. Shrink the T: (Test partition) by 30GB.
4. Now the total unallocated space should be about 39.8GB and will be located at the end of the drive.
5. Create a new partition using all of the unallocated space and assign the drive letter D: and label as 'Backup_D'
6. Now delete the T: (Test) partition and return it 'Unallocated' space.

Now post back what the partition layout looks like, it shoulod be something like the following:

                        C:                           H:                                                                 Backup_D  D:

100 MB              118.42 GB NTFS       40.00 GB RAW        99.76 GB                         39.80 GB NTFS

Healthy (...)        Healthy (....)           Healthy                  Unallocated                       Healthy (....) 

JS

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