chkdsk Problems

Hi, new here ... and I hope you can help me out.

DD has a HP Pavilion dv2000. Last week it starting saying that chkdsk needed to run on start up (there might be a problem). At first it ran to 4% and then stopped - appears to freeze. She left it running all night and then brought it to me. I let run over 5 hours.

If you bypass the chkdsk everything seems to be fine so we ran Virus Detection software, cleaned the disk and ran defrag.

I've have tried running chkdsk from command (chkdsk c: /f) and same problem.

What to do ... what to do?

Hi there,
Take a look at this tutorial on how to check the system for corrupt files/repair.

System Files - SFC Command

Raj

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I followed the link. At cmd prompt typed in this:

C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

The system scan ran for over 45 min and then I recieved this:

Verification 98% complete. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to to fx some of them.
Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For Example C:Windows\Logs|CBS\CBS.log

Followed links on the SFC under dark blue "IF SFC can not finish or repair a file" to the MS site to read the CBS logs. At command prompt typed in

Sorry....

typed in:

sfcdetails.txt

I got a notepad that does not show any files corrupt or repaired only one set towards the bottom that reads this:

(date) (time), info CSI 000002a5 [SR] Repairing 0 comonents
(date) (time), info CSI 000002A6 [SR] Beginning Verify an...
(date) (time), info CSI 000002a8 [SR] Repair complete

All others list 100 components, beginning verify and ...., verify complete.

So, it appears to me the repair was complete BUT CMD said it was unable to fix????

Ok, bypassed the chkdsk on start-up.

Clicked on Vista icon, typed cmd, right clicked to "run as administrator" and at prompt typed chkdsk

This time it ran and finished with "Windows has checked the file system and found no problems".

Restarted computer .... chkdsk did NOT run automatically and the computer loaded up to desktop with no problems.

Ok, what just happened here? Anything to be concerned about?