Can chkdsk repair my faulty HDD??

stephen4691 · 12 Mar 2013 at 19:02

Hello everyone

I'm having some trouble with my laptop, it won't boot into windows after the acer logo it will black screen and eventually go into startup repair. I've managed to work out that the hard drive is faulty by going into mini xp and using hd tune to scan the hard drive. There were 2 damaged (red) sectors.

I've been told by a colleague that running check disk may solve the problem. I am currently running chkdsk from the cmd prompt in start up repair and it seems to be stuck in stage 2 of 5 (10%). It's been running for 45mins.

My question is can chkdsk save my hard drive or should i prepare to buy a new one?

I'm a bit of a novice and am still learning so be easy

Any feedback will be appreciated.

yashiro · 13 Mar 2013 at 06:36

99% of the time you will need to buy a new drive.

zakblood · 13 Mar 2013 at 06:45

all it does is find errors, and when found mark them bad, repair is rare but does happen, normally if it repairs then it wasn't damaged just bad links etc which it fixes and says repaired but unless you look at the error message sometimes you think it's fixed something major with most of the time if any it doesn't

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHKDSK

Steve Gibson's SpinRite is a good one to try

troops · 13 Mar 2013 at 12:50

It might "fix" the OS but ultimately the disk is goosed, time for an upgrade!

unleashed · 13 Mar 2013 at 13:30

scannow /f will repair windows.

bledd · 13 Mar 2013 at 16:23

yashiro said:
99% of the time you will need to buy a new drive.

This

On Holiday · 13 Mar 2013 at 22:55

Had a HDD that wouldn't boot into Windows, would crash trying to install/re-format Windows too.

Tried accessing it, would crash.

Ran chkdsk about 4 times and managed to get it working to get the data off.

monkeys · 14 Mar 2013 at 17:59

Drives are cheap anyway but if a problem, you can partition it and use it as a spare but not sure it is worth the hassle.