In order to troubleshoot another problem I was advised in several articles to run chkdsk. So I did and it ran at the next start up as expected but then it stalled on stage 5. The first time it stalled at 68%. I left it running and ran errands all day and when I got back it was still at 68%. I tried rebooting 2 - 3 times and each time it stalled at stage 5 around 58 - 68%

when I boot it doesn't give me an option to skip the scan. What should I do? I'm thinking of trying to hit f8 repeatedly on the next reboot but before I waste my time does anyone know if booting in safe mode by passes the scan?

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I would download the diagnostic tool from your hard drive manufacturer's web page and run it. Bypassing the problem would not be a good idea if the drive is going bad.


On Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 6:31 am, PhilosopherSocrates wrote:
>In order to troubleshoot another problem I was advised in several articles to run
>chkdsk. So I did and it ran at the next start up as expected but then it stalled
>on stage 5. The first time it stalled at 68%. I left it running and ran errands all
>day and when I got back it was still at 68%. I tried rebooting 2 - 3 times and each
>time it stalled at stage 5 around 58 - 68%
>

>when I boot it doesn't give me an option to skip the scan. What should I do? I'm
>thinking of trying to hit f8 repeatedly on the next reboot but before I waste my
>time does anyone know if booting in safe mode by passes the scan?

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If you can get beyond the stalled CHKDSK, as well as following Ricer's advice about 
the HDD diagnostics:

1. Did you run CHKDSK 'Drive letter:' /f /r ?

2. To stop CHKDSK running every time you boot, until you have sorted out the underlying 
problem, run CHKNTFS 'Drive letter:' /x

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