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Here's a little more info though .... Check disk ran thru the first
three stages within 15-20 minutes. It's on stage 4 - verifying file
data - which has been running for a couple of hours and it's 15%
complete. I don't think check disk has ever been run on this PC
before. Does that give you something to respond to? Obviously, I'm
very new at this so I'll take any other advice you have to offer, as
well. Thx
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I've seen chkdsk take 6 hours to complete. If you include the /r
switch to fix bad sectors, it can over a day. It depends on the size
of your disk, how many sectors are currently inuse, read errors on the
disk, whether you use FAT or NTFS as the file system, etc.
If you see some progress in an hour, even if only a few percent under
the current test category, then let it keep going. I had one disk
where it took something like 2 days (I went to sleep so don't know how
much of the 2nd night it took before completing).