Vista - Check Disk - chkdsk

You're welcome Tony.

Shawn

When I run chkdsk, it completes Stage 1, but then it "hangs up" on the 2nd Stage "Verifying indexes." It shows only 17% of the total check being done. My only resort is to unplug the PC and restart and skip chkdsk. What can I do?

Also, I cannot use Systems restore, although I have used it in the past.

Hello Vernrose, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I would say that it was time to do a clean reinstall.

Sorry,
Shawn

I have a new Dell xps 64bit vista home premium.

When I tryto run check disk it always freezes at 41 or 42% in stage 5 of 5

I have tried using the options in this tutorial but stil the same result, always freezes at 41 or 42%.

I have also followed you instructions and run the sfc scannow. it does show some corrupt files that it cannot fix but I don't know if there is something else i should do form here or if these even effect the check disk run.

any suggestions/help appreceited

thanks,
molly5

Hello Molly, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Other than a clean reinstall of Vista, you can try a Repair install to try and fix this corruption.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you Shawn for your response, i did also go through all the Methods 1 to 4 again and now everything started working and completed the checkdisk, your directions are super easy to follow. thanks again

dear shawn, im back before i sent you a message that i tried methods 1-4 nothing worked. then i used the vista dvd and safe open via dos and ran the chkdsk /f and /r succesfully..

its been over a month, so i wanna run chkdsk again. so tried to do it, but maybe im missing something but when it boots from cd, you see the wondows sign and when i write chkdsk it only runs in readonly mode and stops when it finds a problem. it doesnt even run chkdsk /f or with /r.. it says the disk is under use. i tried chkdsk d: /f /r and it works. however not on c: ..

so is there a way to get the command prompt earlier, so i wont get a disk is under use message and will be able to run chkdsk from vista cd?
thanks,
drtorque

Molly, I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out and working.

Hello DrTorque,

You may be able to use the command prompt from Option Two in the tutorial below to run chkdsk from.

Command Prompt at Startup

Hope this helps,
Shawn

worked like a charm, thax very much again man. yup i tried the registry updates but for some reason, it switched back to the wrong one when i shut down the poc, so it wont run chkdsk on its own at startup again.. its just sick..

anyways, this time, i missed running the command prompt under repair computer.. but wrote down the procedure on notepad for next time : )

anyways, if there's anyone out there who tried it all and nothing worked, ur not alone. my vista doesnt run the chkdsk on its own.. so below is the sure way it works for me:
insert vista setup dvd
let it run
"boot from dvd"
repair your computer , next
command prompt
chkdsk c: /f /x
chkdsk c: /r for hard errors