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

http://www.pagestart.com


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  1. Anonymous
    2010-03-14T23:37:31+00:00

    I have a question by when aproximately do you think the documentation will be done? By this week? In 2 weeks? A month? I was also wondering since I was able to do a full format has the steps on the documentation gone from 50 or more down to like 20 or more?

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-03-14T18:06:30+00:00

    Haven't forgot about you, It's just that I've been through a bad serveral days.

    First my PC that I use to access this forum and develope the documentation you need (and post it to my web site) shut down without warning twice. Turned out it wasn't the Power Supply but the UPS malfunstioned and shutdown. Replaced the UPS and then the next day due to bad weather I lost Internet, Phone and TV service for almost 24 hours and the repair tech will be back again to finish the job as they only set me up on a temporary fiber circuit.

    Needless to say I've been playing catchup for the last 24 hours.

    JS

    http://www.pagestart.com


    Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-03-09T23:29:14+00:00

    Finishing up the documentation. Will let you know when its available, hang in there.

    JS

    http://www.pagestart.com


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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-09T22:47:33+00:00

    Hey J W Stuart any thing new lately?

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