Chkdsk Doesnt Run Fully

[Shadows]

Check Disk Gets to Stage 2 17% And just stops.
Brings up the next line awaiting another command as if it finished.
I've tried Doing a System Restore But it cant since the files are apparently corrupted and check disk cant fix them because it doesnt get far enough to find them in the first place. Just wondering if anyone here could give me a tip on what to do. I would reinstall it but my computer didn't come with a vista disk.

 

[johngalt]

Hi, Shadows, and welcome to the forums.

Have you run a hard Drive diagnostic on your computer? The HD manufacturer's almost always have free diagnostics that you can use to test your HD....

I would recommend getting whichever you can burn to CD (usually in an ISO format) and let it boot off that - HD diagnostics while Windows is running are not too good.

 

[Shadows]

Ive ran a diagnostic on my hard drive which was supplied by the HD manufacturer.
It said the hard drive was fine.

The computer runs on X: while CHKDSK scans C: but it still gets to 17% always and just stops like it did what it had to do.

 

[johngalt]

What do you mean the computer runs on X: while CHKDSK runs on C:? What is C:?

 

[Shadows]

C: is the HD with the problem. The Diagnostic Tool has lots of features which includes being able to run the command prompt and it runs on a seperate drive so that I can scan the C: Drive without having to retsrat my computer because C: is my main hard drive. Obviously I cant scan it while using it.

 

[johngalt]

That is not what I asked - I meant what is C: used for exactly? Is it a separate physical HD or a partition on your single drive?

If it is a partition, then it sounds like it is the recovery partition - and this behavior is *normal*.

Not to mention, you're confusing me.

You said your computer runs on X: - huh?

Is C: your main system drive that Windows is installed on or is X:?

 

[Shadows]

Its a Single Drive D: is my recovery partition.

 

[johngalt]

If it is not reporting any errors, I would not be worried.

I had to go back and read for a third time what you wrote and all of a sudden it clicked - the diagnostics are not actually running on a HD X: they are being run as you boot the system, from a virtual RAMDrive that is labeled X: - hence my confusion.

These diagnostics - are they third party or are you using the ones built into Windows? They might be able to actually run correctly on a Vista machine as it is NTFS....hence me asking you if you ran CHKDSK *from inside Windows*....

 

[Shadows]

Well I wasnt worried at first until I wanted to run a system restore and it told me it couldn't because files on my drive were corrupted and told me to run CHKDSK and this is how I was first alerted to this problem in the first place.

And the diagnostics are built into my system.

 

[johngalt]

then you're running a standard CHKDSK that asks you to reboot and shows a little

X:\>

prompt while running, and it fails without any real error.

OK, I'd next try an

SFC /SCANNOW

to see if that helps any - if not, then your restore files are corrupted and I'd start out by disabling System restore, then enabling it and manually creating a new System restore point.

First things first - do the SFC.

 

[Shadows]

Appreciate the help and advice, I hope this next one works. As im not near my computer at the moment when I am ill try it and hope for the best. I really appreciate your help. Thanks a bunch.

 

[johngalt]

Let;s hope it works first - otherwise, it's back to the drawing board....