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
    2010-03-18T01:25:18+00:00

    Well it like trying to hit a moving target when you expanded the backup partition but here is how you can get everthing back to normal.

    This assumes you have enought free space on your Windows partition.

    1. "Copy" the files and folders in your "Backup" partition into a folder named "Backup" on your Windows partition. Then delete the Backup partition and "Hopefully" you will have one single contiguous  "unallocated" area on the drive.
    2. The Acronis backup you created is now of no use for our purposes but still has some value, therefore you should still copy it and all the other stuff from the Backup partition over to the "Backup" folder you created in the Windows partition.
    3. Delete the backup partition and hopefully you will have one single contiguious area on your drive marked as "Unallocated".
    4. Create the now infamous test partition ("Primary") partition just large enought to leave 50GB of unallocated space available.
    5. With the remaining unallocated space create a "Primary" partition named "Backup".
    6. Copy all the files and folders located in the Windows partition "Backup" folder over to the newly create Backup partition. At this point you should have everything restored in the backup partition that was there originally.
    7. Delete the Windows "Backup folder" you created in step #1 above as everything is now back to where it belongs.
    8. Delete the "Test" partition and return it to "Unallocated" space. It should now all be a single contiguous  "unallocated" area on the drive located between the Windows and Backup partitions.
    9. Create a "New" Image Backup per the instructions on my web site. The old backup is of little value once you increased the size of the backup partition.

    Post your results back before proceeding any further!!!

    JS

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-03-17T22:34:17+00:00

    Yes ther backup partition is a marked as Primary. Also Yea I do have 2 Unallocated Partitions.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-03-17T22:24:51+00:00

    So you now have two partitions marks as "Unallocated"

    Are they next to each other or is there a small partition seperating them?

    When you expanded the "Backup" partition is it marked as "Primary" or a "Logical" partition?

    JS

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-17T21:15:30+00:00

    Also I forgot to say that I had to extend the Backup Partition again because while I was waiting for you to finish the documentation I had several projects to do which had to do with videos and stuff which a took a bit more space so I extended the Backup partition to 50.00 GB.

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