CHKDSK /R Question

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When in XP, I was booted off due to drive write errors. I have run chkdsk /r
from DOS; the process gets to 70% and then reverts back to the 50% check
level and continues on to 62% where it seems to hang up. Can anybody tell me
what this means? I know I need to replace the drive but I was hoping I could
use a portion of the drive until the replacement is mailed to me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...Kingfish
 
Well, unable to download a utility for my Toshiba 2.5" drive since it is a
Dell OEM build. Have run the built-in utility and it does not pass, hence
the reason for running chkdsk /r. I am pretty sure the drive is ruined.
Would like to use the drive but can anyone tell me if this is a good idea:
fdsk the drive and install XP so that it uses the good sectors on the drive?
 
Hi

I hope that you don't use DOS for this but the recovery console by booting
from CD. If it doesn't work, you can try to install the HD in other
computer as slave and run the chkdsk.

henpat
 
Thanks HenPat.

I have run chkdsk from the recovery console on the CD. Since it is a laptop
hard drive, I cannot run it as a slave on a desktop, correct?
 
Kingfish said:
Thanks HenPat.

I have run chkdsk from the recovery console on the CD. Since it is a
laptop hard drive, I cannot run it as a slave on a desktop, correct?
Click to expand...

Yes, you can but you need a laptop drive-to-IDE adapter. You might want
to try SeaTools from Seagate for hard drive diagnostics. SeaTools will
work on non-Seagate drives. If any *physical* errors show up after a
thorough scan (not file system errors), you know the drive is toast.

However, if the Dell drive utility shows the drive as not passing with
*physical* errors, you have your answer and the drive needs to be
replaced.

Malke
 
=?Utf-8?B?S2luZ2Zpc2g=?= said:
Well, unable to download a utility for my Toshiba 2.5" drive since it is a
Dell OEM build. Have run the built-in utility and it does not pass, hence
the reason for running chkdsk /r. I am pretty sure the drive is ruined.
Would like to use the drive but can anyone tell me if this is a good idea:
fdsk the drive and install XP so that it uses the good sectors on the drive?
Click to expand...

Zero fill the drive. Then see if a fdisk/format completes. If either
stalls, the drive is toast.
 
henpat said:
I hope that you don't use DOS for this but the recovery console by booting
Click to expand...

DOS utiilty apps are required for properly testing hard drives. All the
hard drive makers testing apps run in dos, sometimes ms-dos, often
non-ms versions of dos.
 
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