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
    2010-03-20T00:23:13+00:00

    My question is if I were to delete the whole disk basically will the bad sector problem be repeated because of the fact I deleted everything, or will the bad sector problem wont happen again since UBCD replaced it with a spare sector.  

    Do you think what I am thinking of doing is safe?

    One you delete all the partitions on the disk your only choice when installing Windows 7 is to use it's built in disk management functions and as a result the bad sector will be back.

    But first things first, so see if you can go through the procees I have on my web site using the existing Windows install.

    JS

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-03-19T22:33:52+00:00

    Im sorry but I am totally confused with what you have told me because of the fact that I have been messing with partitions today.

    This is what I am thinking of doing:

    1. Backup my important files.
    2. Deleting the entire disk....basically making everything unallocated space
    3. When I create the partition I will use to install windows the setup will automatically make the 100 MB. The reason I want to do that is that I think the setup creating the 100MB partition is better because I still have bootmgr in the root of Local Disk and I have a partition with bootmgr so I just want bootmgr in one place so hopefully that doesnt make the time the laptop boots slower.
    4. Make that 10.00 GB or bigger if necessary backup partition.
    5. Install windows on the biggest partition and thats it.

    My question is if I were to delete the whole disk basically will the bad sector problem be repeated because of the fact I deleted everything, or will the bad sector problem wont happen again since UBCD replaced it with a spare sector. What has me confused is the part where you said that as long as I do not delete or recreate the Windows partition when I reinstall Windows I will be ok, what I understand of that is that you dont what me to delete the partition just the files inside, and that if I were to recreate the partition again meaning deleting the whole thing that I wont be ok."...but the problem of course when you re-install Windows is to delete the existing Windows files, otherwisae you end up with two sets of Windows installed on the same partition."That is the only thing I understood sadly.

    Do you think what I am thinking of doing is safe?

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-03-19T22:10:29+00:00

    No, What I am saying is that as long as you do not delete and recreate the Windows partition when you re-install Windows you will be OK. The key is to reuse the existing partition, but the problem of course when you re-install Windows is to delete the existing Windows files, otherwisae you end up with two sets of Windows installed on the same partition.

    JS

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-19T21:31:42+00:00

    So are you basically saying that each time I were to reinstall windows I have to use UBCD to format the partition? I thought that once I format the partition the very first time that the problem wouldnt be repeated.

    Can you explain to me why would I have to format the new partition?

    Also I finished doing the format to the new partition. I am about to start restoring the files back to the new formatted partition.

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