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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 think what it should do is prevent your Master File Table (MFT) on the newly formated partition from being overwritten by the Master File Table (MFT) contained in the Image Backup file.
If the MFT inside the Image Back was restored along with all your Windows files to the newly formatted partition then the bad sector is back (as you found out) because the Image Backup MFT holds the old sector information and it replaced the MFT created by the "Full" format which hold the new sector information.
JS
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Wow J W Stuart I cant believe you still have hope which I have lost already but I will try this last thing. I have a question what does removing the checkmark for overwrite existing files do?
Not to worry, there is one last thing to try if you have the time to start over by using the UBCD disk, and once again performing a "Full" format of your Windows partiton.
The one change to the restoration of the files is as follows:
http://www.pagestart.com/win7chkdskbs05.html
If you can do this it would be appreciated.
JS
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O god J W Stuart I feel horrible while I am writing this. Check disk froze again at 45%.
I dont know what to do. I dont know if Dell will replace my hard drive even though I have warranty. I am sorry you had to do all that work for nothing. This was a great experience I went through and it was a pleasure talking to you.
