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
    2010-03-03T04:35:03+00:00

    If the Backup_D is a logical drive is that a bad thing?

    *I couldnt make the backup partition E: cuz that is my CD/DVD drives' letter.

    1. No the Backup drive is fine even if its a Logical partition.
    2. As long as you have it labeled 'Backup_D' that fine also.

    Let me know how the backup goes and don't forget to verify that you can locate the backup file when booting from the 'Rescue' cd.

    JS

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-03-03T04:27:43+00:00

    I followed your steps but you forgot about the 9.8 Gb unallocated space. But I took care of that I deleted the backup and free space and mixed it with the 9.8 Gb unallocated space making it all up to 179.57 GB unallocated space. I then made one partition with the size of 149.57 GB and then another of 30.00 Gb and deleted the 149.57 Gb to make it unallocated space. So i got rid of the free space. When i created the 30.00gb partition it automatically became an extended partition but with no free space which is good.

    This is how it looks now:

    100MB             118.42 GB NTFS       149.57                                                   Backup_D (F:)

    Healthy            Healhty (...)             Unallocated Space                                  30.00 GB NTFS

                                                                                                                     Healthy (Logical Drive)

    If the Backup_D is a logical drive is that a bad thing?

    *I couldnt make the backup partition E: cuz that is my CD/DVD drives' letter.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-03-03T04:04:37+00:00

    OK, since Acronis can still create a new Image Backup here is what needs to be done.

    1. Delete the backup partition, you should now have 169.76GB of 'Free space'.
    2. Right click and delete the free space. Now all you should have is the 100MB System,Reserved partition, your 118GB NTFS Windows partition and 169.76 of 'Unallocated space.
    3. Create a new primary partition size = 139GB, leave the default label of 'New Volume'.
    4. Create another primary partition using the remaining 30GB of 'Unalocated' space give a label of Backup_D (even thought the drive letter will be E:, when we are done it will be re-assigned to D:)
    5. At this point you should have partitions of 100MB, 118GB (Windows), 139.76GB NTFS Primary partition and the newly recreated 30GB NTFS backup partition. They at this point should all be 'Primary' partitions.
    6. Delete the 139.76GB 'New Volume' partition and it should now be 'Unallocated' space.
    7. Create a new Acronis backup using the previous instructions including a unique folder named for when the Image file will be stored (don't forget to include the 100MB partition as part of the backup).

    Let me know if you have any problems getting rid of that free space.

    JS

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-03T03:08:44+00:00

    I will just show you the backup and free space since the other stuff is the same:

    -                             -                                                 -

    -                             -                Backup_D (D:)            -

    -   139.76 GB           -               30.00 GB NTFS             -

    -  Free space           -               Healthy (Logical Drive)  -

    The dashes represent the green box.

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