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CHKDSK is is stuck on stage 2 of 3 with 0% completed> I am using xp PRO with latest SP and dual core intel with wester nterabyrte hd about 2 months old. Nothing out of ordinary. Just a routine maintanence I do once a month. Althought yesterday my computer froze so I had to push power button with 3 programs open. Notihing else would work to close so I know this will cause slow chkdsk.

Can I reboot into safe mode and try last config that worked or???

What to do? It has been over 30 minutes so far in stage 2

I am afraid opowering down wil make worse. How long should I wait ?

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Brian Pierce

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webguy62

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I as runnign raid mirrored so it is highly unlilkey both dics woudl fail? Or not? BY the by after 45 minutesdit started and now after since I posted it I am now art 4%. At this rate it might take 24 hours. Would it be beter to wait out this process now that it started out or do as you say? You are expert :)

Brian Pierce

Depends how much time you have on your hands....

webguy62

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oin other words powergin down and restarting as you suggest would run the process faster? If aso then power down it shall be. Time is somehting I do not have . My back up PC does not have all the programs I need to access my servers or db

thsteph

remove the HDD and put it on another pc and try again from there. also try to defrag if you can

webguy62

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Just curious?. Have things changed? I was always under the impression that we do NOT defrag a hard drive unitl after scan disc. I think I wil try reboot first :) However I might have had that backward for the last 15+ years as I always defarged after scan disc. Need to research this a little more./

thsteph

I never said to defrag before scandisk. actually I never had an issue with sequense. you also said you didn't manage to scandisk right? if you do manage to scandisk on another pc then skip defrag if you want.
but I never got the point with defragging after the scandisk; if you defrag and it finds a bad sector it will just try to move the data to another sector and mark that one as a bad one.

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