I have seen your described action when a HD is beyond normal repair. Chkdsk
will just hang.
Backups created "prior" to the occurrence are what is needed and has been
preached since computers came into general use. Before I learned I lost
irreplaceable photos of my children during their younger years.
Guess who backs up daily now?
You may be able to send the drive to Drive Savers or a similar company. Be
prepared to spend a lot.
--
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"magmos_019" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello!
>
> I have a Dell Latitude D630 with 64-bit Vista Business installed. When
> I start the computer wants to make chkdsk on the file system. If I do
> that it ends up with the following behaviour:
>
> Chkdsk is verifying files (stage 1 of 3).
> 161472 file records processed.
> File verification completed.
> 150 lrage file records processed.
> 0 bad file records processed.
> 2 EA records processed.
> 76 reparse records processed.
> Chkdsk is verifying index (stage 2 of 3).
> 20 percent complete. (78222 of 615387 index entries processed
> After this it stops. Doesnot matter how long I wait (couple of hours).
> The screen is all black, no mousearrow.
>
> I have also tried F8 after reboot and selected ""Repair your computer".
> IŽll be prompted for user-ID. If I select "Administrator" I get the
> following answer:
> "your account has been disabled". If I select user johbjo, which is an
> administrator, it works fine and I can login. Then I select "command
> prompt" and now I can see my missed files that I would like to save. But
> to what place can they be saved? I restarted the same way and connected
> an external USB-disk. But I cannot find any device letter for that one.
> I have tried d:, a:, b:, e: and so on. I would really like to save my
> files.
>
> I have also teaken out the hard drive and connected it to a desktop as
> a secondary HD. The desktop stops after trying to c"chkdsk verifying
> index" for 4-5 hours.
>
> I do not really dare to do any command on the disk now when I can see
> my files but to rescue them.
>
> Any piece of advices is appreciated.
>
> Best reg. Magnus
>
>
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> magmos_019