Vista will not do a system recovery when is sees some corruption in the file system. I fear since it sees the file system as corrupt a repair/upgrade may not work either. May just have to wipe it and reinstall. Good side is it's a recently built computer so it's not fully loaded down with stuff. I'll check the cable just for the heck of it.
I did try deleting all temporary files, cookies, etc. and rebuilt the index. I tried this since IE will hang after you use it for awhile. Now it gets to a point in chkdsk where it's checking the indexes then says "an unspecified error" and bails to the operating system.
It a desktop, Q6600 with 8G of ram, clean install and Vista 64 Ultimate. I've done a virus scan besides checking the segate 500G drive with the segate software. chkdsk keeps hanging at 68% when checking the indexes. I have also tried reindexing.
I haven't tried a system retore or a system recovery. This is a new system and I haven't gotten around to doing an entire backup. I was thinking about trying a repair/upgrade. It's rather furstrating since I've never had any problem repairing the file systems in any of my other systems with XP.
Hummm, if its a bad connection on a drive why would it stop at keep stopping at 68% of the index checking? Being sata connections I would think it would be hard to not completely plug the connection in but I can check them.
Hey buck, may be you have got the point about the HDD hangs up at 68% though loosen SATA connection is a known cause for problems.
On top of what Loadbob suggest and your HDD is being ok, I would suggest a system restore to the restore point before having the problem. Regardless, you may need to start backing up data you like to keep since clean reinstallation may be reqire.
Good luck.
Bruce