So I am trying to partition my hard drive to dual boot Vista and Windows 7, hoping the latter will prove to be a faster and overall better operating system. I use my computer heavily daily and can therefore not afford much (if any) downtime, so I essentially must do everything right on the first try. In preparation for my partitioning (since I don't want to delete any of the data I already have), I am trying to back up my computer using the Windows Backup tools. I created a 170 GB partition on my external HD for backup, and Windows seems to let me proceed through the backup until it flashes that C: has corruption and Chkdsk must be run. This is where my issues begin.
I had issues getting Chkdsk to start, but resolved them with a new System32 file (autochk.exe?) found in these forums. So finally chkdsk started when I booted my computer and seemingly froze at 17% (later to find, it was just running extremely slowly), so I did a hard shut down, holding the power button. I retried, determined it was running slowly through the processes or something along the line (step 4/5) and let it proceed all night. I woke up this morning and was relieved it was on step 5/5, but my roommate told me it had been at 10,010 files out of very many for at least three hours.
Why does this keep freezing??? I have tried many times and continually get the same problem. And I certainly don't want to skip the backup because I most likely will not partition correctly the first time.
Thank you.
P.S. Here are my computer specs, if it matters:
Dell XPS 1530
2.6 Ghz Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
320 GB Samsung HM320JI
GeForce 8600 M GT 256 MB vRAM
I had issues getting Chkdsk to start, but resolved them with a new System32 file (autochk.exe?) found in these forums. So finally chkdsk started when I booted my computer and seemingly froze at 17% (later to find, it was just running extremely slowly), so I did a hard shut down, holding the power button. I retried, determined it was running slowly through the processes or something along the line (step 4/5) and let it proceed all night. I woke up this morning and was relieved it was on step 5/5, but my roommate told me it had been at 10,010 files out of very many for at least three hours.
Why does this keep freezing??? I have tried many times and continually get the same problem. And I certainly don't want to skip the backup because I most likely will not partition correctly the first time.
Thank you.
P.S. Here are my computer specs, if it matters:
Dell XPS 1530
2.6 Ghz Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
320 GB Samsung HM320JI
GeForce 8600 M GT 256 MB vRAM
