CHKDSK runs and runs...

jonmal123

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I have a Dell with a 500Gb hard drive and decided to ask for a diskcheck at next boot with the repair option. It started 25 hours ago and the screen is blank. The HD light flicks once per second.
How long should I leave it like this before pulling the plug?
Is this an expected time to run?
Thanks for opinions...

John
 

My Computer

Till its done. Did you find any errors or allocation problems? Does it find issues and crash?

Try
Start
All programs
Accessories
Right click on command prompt and choose run as administrator
In box, chkdsk c:/r
Follow the prompts to run at reboot. Reboot and let it run.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
    Motherboard
    Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
    Memory
    16GB DDR667
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
    Hard Drives
    SAS RAID
Restart it and run chkdsk /r repair mode like I posted. You could also boot the OS CD and run the repair mode from administrative mode.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
    Motherboard
    Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
    Memory
    16GB DDR667
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
    Hard Drives
    SAS RAID
Well I did pull the plug after 35 hours and everything started just fine. What chance if I start this again I wont have another long down time? I dont think I should have done it in the first place...:zip:
 

My Computer

No, that's NOT normal...something froze it up.
Checkdisk on a 500G drive should still be no longer than an hour or so, and that's if it finds things that need doing as it doesn't check the entire 500G's, only the used space and MFT.

Giver her another go and see what happens. You can also try Michael's suggestion to run it from a command line with admin privileges, that may help but if it goes longer than a few hours then pull the plug again and let us know what happened. Maybe also check your Event Viewer and your CBS log for any info. The CBS log can be found in Windows\logs\CBS\CBS.log
It can be rather large, like 60MB plus so check the Date Modified info because it could also be logged in the smaller CBS.persist.log file. Notepad can look like it freezes up opening this large a file so use Wordpad instead. Or if you have a 3rd party program like NoteTab Lite (free editor) that's even better. Scroll to the bottom and look for the time entry for when you ran chkdsk and see if there's any info on it...there should be.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Personal Build
    CPU
    Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo
    Motherboard
    Asus Commando MoBo (P965/ICH8R)
    Memory
    4G's Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC26400 RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum FATAL1TY (next)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x 22" w2207 LCD Monitors
    Screen Resolution
    1- 1680 x 1050, 1 - 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    3 x 500G SATA II WD Caviar HDD's
    PSU
    EnerMax NoiseTaker II 600W
    Case
    NZXT Lexa Classic (modified, dual doored & windowed)
    Cooling
    Zalman 9700 CPU cooler, 4-120mm fans, 1-90mm
    Mouse
    Logitech Optical Trackman trackball
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    NZXT Lexa Classic Case, Zalman 9700 CPU Cooler, 2 DVD Burners c/w LightScribe (Sony, TSST), Enermax NoiseTaker II 600W PSU with Custom Chrome cable sleeving, Hauppauge HDTV TV Tuner Card, 5.1 Logitech Z5500 speakers, 15 in 1 Multi-card reader
Chkdsk can take hours to run. It depends on many factors. If their is a driver performance issue or a bad drive, it will slow down. You should see it on the screen.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
    Motherboard
    Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
    Memory
    16GB DDR667
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
    Hard Drives
    SAS RAID
It started 25 hours ago and the screen is blank. The HD light flicks once per second.

That is more indicative of a failure somewhere.

Michael is right, in that it *can* take a really long time, again, YMMV, but the key is that if it *is* encountering an error you most certainly should *not* be getting a blank screen. Also, a HD light blinking once a second it indicative more of a system halt state - I saw that plenty of times with my older P4 machine running Vista when it would inexplicably just decide to stop working - usually if I had been away for a long period of time. It is most definitely not normal.

Chappy is right - try it again - if it happens again, give it *one* more shot - if it happens all three times then I would say it is a 100% reproducible problem and you need to consider troubleshooting a problem that may not be manifesting itself in Windows (yet).
 

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    Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
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    The Beast Model V (homebrew)
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    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
    Motherboard
    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
    Memory
    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
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    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
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    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
    Screen Resolution
    2 * 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
    Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
    2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
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    PSU
    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
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    ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
    Cooling
    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
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    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared)
    Internet Speed
    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
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    Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
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    Lenovo ThinkPad E545
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    AMD A6-5350M APU
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Radeon HD (Embedded)
    Sound Card
    Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
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    Lenovo 15" Matte
    Screen Resolution
    1680 * 1050
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    INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
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    Lenovo
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    Lenovo
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    Lenovo
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    Lenovo
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