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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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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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I have a question how are you testing this? Like how did you manage to find out if what you are doing will get rid of the bad sectors if Im guessing your pc doesnt have any bad sectors? (I am just curious =] )
Also I really appreciate your work I hope we finally finish this soon this thread has had so many views and replies and the funny part is that this is my first ever thread lol.
I am still documenting, I will post the entire process including screen shots to my web site as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.
JS
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Yes I have done the backup and the cd. For the backup for some reason I had to extend my backup partition. I extended it to 40.00GB. Also as for the cd you told me to do and everything you told me to do all worked I am ready for your next set of steps.
How did the backup and verification go?
Next step is to create a bootable Windows XP CD as follows.
How to Build the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows:
http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm
(follow the instructions carefully, remember the Windows XP CD must be SP1 or later, Windows XP gold will not work for our purposes)
After you create the bootable CD verify that you (using the newly created CD) can boot to Windows (the interface will be similar to XP.
In the upper left of the Ultimate Boot CD desktop you show see the 'My Compter' icon. Right click and select 'Disk Management' and verify for me that you can see the drive partition information much like you did when you do from Windows 7. Don't do anything at this point just verify you can boot from the CD and that 'Disk Management' display your hard drive partitions correctly. Then remove the CD from the optical drive and reboot to Windows 7.
Let me know the results.
JS
Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.
