Thanks Harondel. It is running the second time now. Rod Lindgren
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harondel J. Sibble Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HARDware: Laptop won't boot On 31 Oct 2005 at 19:34, Rod Lindgren wrote: > Stage two, verifying indexes has been stuck at 4% for over 15 minutes. This > may be the problem. About what I expected, let it run, it may take several hours or overnight, or even longer depending on how badly the filesystem is mangled. OTOH, if the drive is mangled/defective, it may never finish..... > I did not use the /F switch, so no repairs are being performed You should actually use the /R switch to have it relocate bad sectors. That makes it take even longer than the /F switch. Actually, I'd recommend running the manufacturers diag on the drive first, then doing chkdsk /R, IF the drive passes the manufacturers test. The test may say there are bad sectors, do not have it repair, let chkdsk handle that. If it doesn't say the drive itself it defective, you should be fine running chkdsk. If the drive fails the manufacturers test, I'd recommend immediately did a bit by bit ghost image of the drive (tell ghost to ignore bad sectors) and then try a chkdsk /R. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
