On 7 Jun, 13:17, solon fox <solon...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Jun 7, 4:28*am, Adam <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Vista Home Premium, I've set Chkdsk to run but each time it hangs
> > about three quarters of the way through step 5, at the same cluster
> > each time. I've run the harddisk tests (SMART, surface scan etc) from
> > the computer recovery console and it passes every test OK.
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> > If this a physical problem with the drive or a file system one? If
> > it's the latter why can't Chkdsk fix it? It's a new computer should I
> > go through the hassle of returning it to the manufacturer?
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> Stage 5 is verifying freespace. You may have a lot of freespace and
> chkdsk may appear to freeze yet still be working. Is the hard drive
> light blinking, or does it stop? Yes, the light stops. I left it in that state over night and nothing
changed, so it seems pretty likely that chkdsk crashed.
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> another, or one could download additional drive verification utilities
> from the drive manufacturer;
Unfortunately Western Digital don't support Vista with their
diagnostic tools
I tried the DOS-based ISO image but that seems to think it's running
from a floppy and keeps referring to not being able to find files on
A:.
I seem to be at a dead end
Adam