Question about scandisk

[Roman King]

My computer has two separate (C- and D-) hard disks with WinXP Pro SP2.
While doing scandisk on D-drive (250 GB), I noticed this time that scanning
at Phase 2 takes forever.
So I left the scanning running overnight to complete it.
In the morning, the computer was frozen at the start of Phase 5.

I repeated scandisking on D-drive this morning again.
Scanning at Phase 2 seems forever. I do not see any moving anything for the
first 30 min. So I stopped it.
The D-drive which I store mainly data, songs and graphics is working fine.

Could someone advise me what was the problem and how to fix this problem?

TIA. Craig

 

[Dave B.]

The drive could be failing, download and run the diag software from the hard
drive mfg's website, that should give you a definite answer.

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[Guest]

First run disk clean up on both hds,restart pc,install xp cd,boot to xp
xd,press
r for recovert,select 1 for C: Press enter key for password,type:CHKDSK D:
/p
Press enter,press up arrow key,repeat 2X,or type:CHKDSK D: /R Type:EXIT
when thru,let xp start up.

 

[Roman King]

What I did was to reformat the D-drive (250 GB) and copied a few folders
(total 4 GB) onto it.
Then, I ran scan disk (i.e., check disk). What I see is the scanning from
phase 1 to 4 were very quick.
But scanning at phase 5 now works but it is very slow. I have no clues on
what does phase 5 scanning does.
Do you think that D-drive is failing? TIA. Roman

 

[Dave B.]

I can't say, because you have yet to follow my original advise, do what I
suggested, post back the results, and I'll tell you if it's failing or not.

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[Roman King]

Sorry but I forgot to mention it.
Program from Western Digital analyzed all of my disks are HEALTHY.
But scanning speed at Phase 5 is too slow. I am wondering whether there is
a problem with D-drive or not.
Roman

 

[Dave B.]

If the WD diagnostic says the drive is ok, it likely is, although I have had
the issue once or twice where it was in fact bad when the mfg diag software
said it was not.

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