CHKDSK - Volume Dirty, Can't Recover System

[JoeWxMan]

Upon Startup...XP goes into CHKDSK of which the reason is Volume Dirty and
hangs at 60% complete (Stage 1 of 3). It just doesn't seem to be doing
anything at this point as it appears hung, dead in the water. What has me
concerned is, there is no option available for me to go another route to
recover my system, even with the XP CD. It goes straight to CHKDSK as
mentioned earlier and hangs. What has happened? Have I lost my hard drive?
I'm frustrated with it as my system is fairly young and haven't experienced
anything like this before. Thank you.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Upon Startup...XP goes into CHKDSK of which the reason is Volume
Dirty and hangs at 60% complete (Stage 1 of 3). It just doesn't
seem to be doing anything at this point as it appears hung, dead in
the water. What has me concerned is, there is no option available
for me to go another route to recover my system, even with the XP
CD. It goes straight to CHKDSK as mentioned earlier and hangs. What
has happened? Have I lost my hard drive? I'm frustrated with it as
my system is fairly young and haven't experienced anything like
this before. Thank you.

Could be bad hardware. Age has little to do with hardware failure beyond
the chance increasing over time. However - I would bet that chance is
higher than you like for any individual component at any random time. ;-)

Grab the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostics utility and use it to
test the drive for issues.

 

[JoeWxMan]

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Joe

Could be bad hardware. Age has little to do with hardware failure beyond
the chance increasing over time. However - I would bet that chance is
higher than you like for any individual component at any random time. ;-)

Grab the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostics utility and use it to
test the drive for issues.

How do I grab the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostics utility?


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[Shenan Stanley]

How do I grab the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostics
utility?

Go to the hard disk drive manufacturer's web page and their downloads
section and look for their diagnostics/testing utility and download
it/follow directions on their web page.

 

[JoeWxMan]

--
Joe

Go to the hard disk drive manufacturer's web page and their downloads
section and look for their diagnostics/testing utility and download
it/follow directions on their web page.

Thanks for the info.

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