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

Either forgot you had a laptop or you didn't mention it.

This makes things a little harder. suggest you read and see if there is anything that appeals to you.

Two concepts:

1. Image Backup to an external usb drive and Restore:

This is a long shot as Image Backups are just that an image of your hard drive, so when you restore the imahe any corrupted sectors will just be replaced back and you still may have a problem with check disk.

2. Disk cloning (file by file copy of the entire Windows partition) to an external drive, reformating the C:\Windows partition and then recopying all the file back.

Both techniques must be done using a bootable CD/DVD the the cloning software creates (you need to read the user's guide an some guides leave a lot to be desired).

I have used both Ghost 15 and Acronis True Image 2010, both product have their pluses and minuses.

(Will be posting a new series of articles on my web site sometime in the next few days but for a very specific set of circumstances which should not apply to your issue).

Reading material and some software: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/

Also to two or three big guns in the Image Backup and Cloning business:

1. Norton Ghost 2) Acronis True Image 3) Casper

Casper drive cloning: http://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/

(I have not used this product)

Norton Ghost version 15 - has a 30 day trial available

(Trial does not allow you to create a Bootable Restore CD)

Supports: CDR/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-Ray devices,USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices,Iomega® Zip® and Jaz® drives

http://nct.symantecstore.com/fulfill/0184.074/thankyou

User's Guide: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/15/manuals/

Product Review "Symantec's 14th Ghost": (No review yet for version 15)

http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Norton-Ghost--Review-78775.shtml

True Image 2010 - has a 15 day trial version available,

(Create a Restore/Rescue Media CD before you start)

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

Version Comparison: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html

True Image User's Guide: http://us1.download.acronis.com/sl/wT(r2oxsvKJc)y(dxSlHjvo3DJuKia9zm1eu8hX48)4/p/pdf/TrueImage2010_UserGuide.en.pdf

Product Review Acronis True Image Home 2010:

http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/ATI_2010_Review.html

Also copying disk to disk with Norton Ghost

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/powerquest.nsf/docid/2004111701520562?OpenDocument&src=hot&prod=Norton+Ghost&ver=10.0&csm=no&seg=hho

JS

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Sadly no I dont have a spare hard drive. But I am willing to try your other ideas as long as it doesnt have to do with opening my laptop because I dont know how to mess with the inside of a pc, and that it doesnt have to do with messing with the bios other than that I am willing to go for it. So hit me with your best shot. lol ;-)

I've tried to stick to conservative suggestions.

I have a few other things that might work or fail in such a manner as to make your PC unbootable so I can't suggest these as they may make thinks worse.

Sorry, but what may be obvious to someone else escapes me at the moment.

Fresh out of ideas.

One question: Do you have a spare hard drive?

JS

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Speedfan said that everything was fine that it was normal and its performance was rated 97%. It said everything was fine basically. Anything else I can do next to fix this problem?