Post #426,403
11/20/18 12:47:36 PM
11/20/18 12:47:36 PM
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Details?
"... requesting a CHKDSK C: /F /R scan on reboot from an admin CMD window."
Does that mean reboot and when it comes up you request that? How do you get an admin CMD window on boot?
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Post #426,405
11/20/18 4:22:35 PM
11/20/18 4:22:35 PM
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I believe that when you request it, it will say it has to do it on startup.
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Post #426,407
11/20/18 6:17:57 PM
11/20/18 6:17:57 PM
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Correct
Launch CMD from a regular desktop session, but you have to use the "Run as admin" option from the context menu. The boot drive is mounted and that will trigger a "Do you want to schedule this on the next boot?" prompt. Answer Y and reboot.
If all goes well, you'll get a "last chance to abort" screen and then CHKDSK will go off to the races.
Depending on the size of the HDD and the amount of work needed to piece things back together, it is not unusual for this to take an hour or more.
Some laptops also have a non-destructive HDD test in the BIOS. It may be worth looking in to that first. These days the option just exercises the HDD's built-in diagnostics. There's a 2 minute short version which will catch 90% of problems and a long version which will check the entire platter. Run the short test first. If it passes, run the long one. If either fails => time to replace the disk.
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Post #426,410
11/20/18 10:58:17 PM
11/20/18 10:58:18 PM
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Thanks, will kick off before bed tonight
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Post #426,412
11/21/18 9:10:38 AM
11/21/18 9:10:38 AM
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That wasn't what I expected
I never even saw a progress bar or spinner. It completed nearly instantly. So quickly, in fact, that I strongly suspect it didn't actually scan anything.
Is there any log file I can check to see what it did?
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Post #426,414
11/21/18 10:30:01 AM
11/21/18 10:30:01 AM
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Re: That wasn't what I expected
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Post #426,415
11/21/18 10:42:02 AM
11/21/18 10:42:02 AM
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This isn't SSD
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Post #426,417
11/21/18 6:37:09 PM
11/21/18 6:37:09 PM
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Indeed not
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Post #426,420
11/21/18 11:31:08 PM
11/21/18 11:31:08 PM
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Trying again tonight, thanks
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Post #426,423
11/22/18 11:39:07 AM
11/22/18 11:39:07 AM
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Well, it ran ...
Any way to see what it found?
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Post #426,424
11/22/18 5:24:16 PM
11/22/18 5:24:16 PM
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Application event log
Look for the wininit and chkdsk event sources
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Post #426,428
11/23/18 3:56:44 AM
11/23/18 3:56:44 AM
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Re: Well, it ran ...
check the link I gave above
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Post #426,429
11/23/18 10:01:33 AM
11/23/18 10:01:33 AM
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Nothing interesting
Guess the disk is OK, just bogged down running recent Windows on old hardware.
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