chkdsk on windows 7 taking a long time

magick · 25 May 2013 at 09:52

on my sisters laptop everytime she boots chkdsk starts if you don't press a key to cancel it. it gets to stage 2 of 3 then says

"correcting error in index $I30 for file 102109" seven times then just seems to hang but there is hard drive activity. We left it running for 30 min then thought it might have crashed or something. Anyone have any ideas?

thanks.

d_brennen · 25 May 2013 at 09:56

Either the drive is very big and full of stuff which is holding up chkdsk or it's goosed. Get a tool like HDTune (free trial) on the go if you can get into Windows. If it does boot to Windows, take the opportunity to back up anything important (which you should be doing anyway

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theheyes · 25 May 2013 at 09:57

Disk could be knackered. I'd skip the next disk check and back up.

theheyes · 25 May 2013 at 09:57

Beaten to it

magick · 25 May 2013 at 10:02

d_brennen said:
Either the drive is very big and full of stuff which is holding up chkdsk or it's goosed. Get a tool like HDTune (free trial) on the go if you can get into Windows. If it does boot to Windows, take the opportunity to back up anything important (which you should be doing anyway )

It's 500gb drive and it boots to windows fine. i'm on the laptop now.

what should we do with hdtune?

d_brennen · 25 May 2013 at 10:05

Have a look in the Health tab for SMART warnings. It's by no means infallible but SMART will have an idea if the drive is on the way out

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

First download link for the Pro trial will do

e: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology S.M.A.R.T in case you were wondering

magick · 25 May 2013 at 10:35

ok looked on the health tab and it says everything is ok

shall i try the error scan?

d_brennen · 25 May 2013 at 10:36

I'd recommend running checkdisk from an elevated command prompt tbh. It isn't happy about something

Oh and backing up anything you don't want to lose

magick · 25 May 2013 at 10:36

quick error scan says everything is ok to.

magick · 25 May 2013 at 10:37

d_brennen said:
I'd recommend running checkdisk from an elevated command prompt tbh. It isn't happy about something

how do i do that?

d_brennen · 25 May 2013 at 10:52

Type cmd into the Search/Start bar, right click on the CMD icon that appears and choose Run As Administrator

From the command line type chkdsk /r and hit enter. If it insists you need to reboot to run, do so and let it finish. Reboot again and see what the result is and if the problem reoccurs

magick · 25 May 2013 at 11:03

d_brennen said:
Type cmd into the Search/Start bar, right click on the CMD icon that appears and choose Run As Administrator

From the command line type chkdsk /r and hit enter. If it insists you need to reboot to run, do so and let it finish. Reboot again and see what the result is and if the problem reoccurs

ok thanks.

d_brennen · 25 May 2013 at 20:41

What was the outcome?

Blackjack Davy · 25 May 2013 at 20:54

Sector scan is very slow. Also the larger the drive the longer it takes, my boot drive is fairly quick but the secondary 1.5 TB data drive takes an age.

d_brennen · 25 May 2013 at 21:31

Even a full 500GB 5400rpm drive will have finished by now

The suspenders are killing me, want to know what happened with OP too