I have a Western Digital 1 TB disk that was running very slow under Vista. I upgraded to Windows 7. It ran ok for a few weeks but then started running slowly. I was out of town for 3 weeks with system powered off. On return system would not boot. I did the Windows Repair and recovery and I think it was running chkdsk which appeared to get hung up. I then selected the Command Mode from Repair and Recovery and ran chkdsk c: /r /i
It did start displaying what it was doing so I let it run. It did index fixes for a day in Stage 1 and 2. Stage 3 went pretty fast. After 3 days it is now in Stage 4 and says that it is "Verifying file data" approx 94600 of 430000 files processed. At this rate it should take 3 more days to finish Stage 4. Fortunately I have a laptop and files backed up and warranty is good on WD drive. So, I'm going to let it go till it either freezes or finishes.
I'm hoping to set a record for a chkdsk run !!!
Let me know if anyone has any insights or suggestions.
thanks,
Ed
It did start displaying what it was doing so I let it run. It did index fixes for a day in Stage 1 and 2. Stage 3 went pretty fast. After 3 days it is now in Stage 4 and says that it is "Verifying file data" approx 94600 of 430000 files processed. At this rate it should take 3 more days to finish Stage 4. Fortunately I have a laptop and files backed up and warranty is good on WD drive. So, I'm going to let it go till it either freezes or finishes.
I'm hoping to set a record for a chkdsk run !!!
Let me know if anyone has any insights or suggestions.
thanks,
Ed