How long should CHKDSK take? Hours???

Question

Hello.

I'm running CHKDSK from the recovery console. I've been getting a CRC (Cycle Redundancy Check) error lately. When I run CHKDSK, it takes forever. It took 30 minutes to get to 62% completed. I left for an hour and when I came back it was stuck on 66%. Is there something wrong or can it take this long?

Any help is appreciated. Please send a reply to me by email as well because I'm new here and might have trouble getting back quickly.

Thank you!

Brian

johnallg · Answer

Sure sounds like your hdd is dying.  I would pull it out, reseat it firmly into the notebook, then run chkdsk again.  If it is still slow, back up your important data, files, email, etc.

ryri · Answer

if you do a full surface scan on the drive, it can take that long. I previously had 100000+ files on my drive and chkdsk still took less than 5 minutes to do a normal scan.

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How long should CHKDSK take? Hours???

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