I'm writing this for XP, but it's the same problem with Vista on my dual-boot
PC...

I recently encountered a power surge, which caused my PC to shutdown. I was
running in XP at the time.

I powered back up, and everything seemed fine, so I proceeded to do a CHKDSK
on all my drives. My two backup drives checked out OK, but both my XP & Vista
boot drives get stuck when it comes to verifying the indexes. (Stage 2 sticks
on 0%)

I intially restored a backup image of my XP drive, but this had no effect. I
then booted up the Recovery Console on my XP installation CD, and then ran
the CHKDSK /R command. This initially appeared to do the trick, and was able
to complete a Stage 2 check using XP (although it stopped @ Stage 3).

However, I'm back to where I cannot even start a Stage 2 check using CHKDSK
on either boot drive. Am I resigned to reformatting & reinstalling, or is
there something else I can try?

I don't appear to have any problems running either OS, but in both cases, I
cannot perform a basic CHKDSK on a boot drive.

With other hds or partitions running at same time on pc,CHKDSK /R is an
improper cmd.Try in recovery:CHKDSK C: /p If it runs all the way,run again,
then run:CHKDSK C: /R

"TJ" wrote:

> I'm writing this for XP, but it's the same problem with Vista on my dual-boot
> PC...
>
> I recently encountered a power surge, which caused my PC to shutdown. I was
> running in XP at the time.
>
> I powered back up, and everything seemed fine, so I proceeded to do a CHKDSK
> on all my drives. My two backup drives checked out OK, but both my XP & Vista
> boot drives get stuck when it comes to verifying the indexes. (Stage 2 sticks
> on 0%)
>
> I intially restored a backup image of my XP drive, but this had no effect. I
> then booted up the Recovery Console on my XP installation CD, and then ran
> the CHKDSK /R command. This initially appeared to do the trick, and was able
> to complete a Stage 2 check using XP (although it stopped @ Stage 3).
>
> However, I'm back to where I cannot even start a Stage 2 check using CHKDSK
> on either boot drive. Am I resigned to reformatting & reinstalling, or is
> there something else I can try?
>
> I don't appear to have any problems running either OS, but in both cases, I
> cannot perform a basic CHKDSK on a boot drive.

"Andrew E." wrote:

> With other hds or partitions running at same time on pc,CHKDSK /R is an
> improper cmd.Try in recovery:CHKDSK C: /p If it runs all the way,run again,
> then run:CHKDSK C: /R

Did try specifying a drive letter as you suggested, and using the /R
parameter, it did finish saying one or more problems was fixed; although no
details were given.

Did a safe boot immediately afterwards, proceeding to do a standard disk
check. As before, it got stuck when it came to Stage 2.

I've yet to perform a CHKDSK with the /P parameter. Will the details this
provides, help in any way?