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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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Re-installing Windows 7 will not work if during the install you choose to delete the existing partition. The reason is that the new partition created during the install will use a "Quick" format and undo all your hard work.
However is you first delete the existing partitions and then create and perform a "Full" format of the new partition (without deleting the 100MB System partition) using the UBCD boot CD and then during the Windows 7 install process choose the newly formated partition to install Windows 7 the "full" format MFT info will be retained and you "should" have no problems. Keep in mind I have I not tried this but is should work.
JS
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This is what I did: I created the 118.42 partition again format it and everything and I restored the files to the root of the the disk because when I did it with the folder named backup it wasnt able to boot to Windows 7 even after I used the Windows 7 DVD. After I restored the files to the root of the disk I ran the WIndows 7 DVD and it made it able to boot. After that I made sure everything was ok by running check disk. Then I deleted the backup partition and created Test. I did all of this from the UBCD because WIndows created the backup as an Extended partition and for some reason it didnt format the right way so I format it from the UBCD which worked fine. After I got the Backup partition to be at the end and the unallocated space which was Test next to windows 7 partition I went to UBCD to continue your steps in the documentation. I got to mix the 118.42 GB mixed with the Unallocated space of Test which is not 247.99 GB. Right now that I am writing this I am formatting the 247.99 partition ;-) which is right now at 25%.
I am hoping to be able to post again my results when I am done doing everything by tonight but I am not sure I will be able to run Check Disk today but tomorrow for sure because it might be a bit late by the time I am done doing everything because to do the backup it took like 1-2 hrs and to make windows boot ..almost an hour, and then to run Check disk another hour or 2.
Also I was wondering when we fix this problem(think positive right now lol) will I be able to reinstall Windows 7 to get a nice fresh laptop? If yes will that possibly do something bad like cause the problem again?
Please comment on my idea of reinstalling Windows 7 after we fix this(theres that thinking positive thing again lol). Also please let me know if what I have done so far ok.
The files you have currently stored in the "Backup" partition must be moved off the the partition to either an external USB drive or to a new folder located at the root level of your existing Windows partition. If these files are of no value then they can be deleted, but I suspect you want to keep them. So whatever is on the backup partition must be stored temporarly somewhere untill such time the backup partition is recreated and those files can be moved back.
I choose the folder name of Backup so that you could easily associate the files and and subfolders beneath or contained in the C:\Backup folder with the fact that they were once located in the "Backup" partition.
Example: copy E:\Acronis_030910 to C:\Backup\Acronis_030910 (assumes E: is the drive letter of the Backup partition)
I'm not talking about your "Windows files" just the files currently located in the "Backup" partition.
Yes once you have safely copied all these files and folders to the C:\Backup folder you can then delete the "Backup" partition (step #3 above). After the new "Backup partition is recreated (step #5 above) then these files and folders can be copied back to the 50GB Backup partition. Remember to copy just the files and subfolders back and not C:\Backup
Example: copy the subfolder C:\Backup\Acronis_030910 to E:\Acronis_030910
JS
Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.
may be doing right now may be a bit stupid right now but I want to be on the same page for sure so nothing goes wrong. You want me to recover the files in the Backup partition to the windows partition. The part I dont understand is the reason why you want me to create a folder in the windows partition named Backup. So then you want me to boot Windows 7 and delete the backup partition and create Test and also making sure there is 50 GB left to put the backup back in the that partition. I am guessing you want me to do all this while using Windows 7 not UBCD. So the part that confuses me is that if I put all the windows files including my personal files in a backup folder in the windows partition will the Bootmgr be able to find the windows files to work correctly? Also you want me to copy the files from the backup partition to the root of the the windows partition and delete the backup folder.
Please correct me in anything I have misunderstood. Also can you be a bit more specific where you want me to be messing with partitions is it Windows 7 or UBCD.
Also I think its better if you sort of fix the steps you gave me just to make sure because right now I find everything confusing...Im sorry I just dont want to lose my files because of a dumb mistake.
Again sorry :-(
