[GRLUG] nonlinux: chkdsk on win

[Michael Mol]

For a 40GB disk, that's probably pushing it. I'd probably run smart on
the disk before throwing chkdsk on it any more.

You can get smartmontools for Windows; it even works on Vista/Win7.

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> I've got a 2003 Win server trying to run chkdsk. It's about 40GB, I
> think. Chkdsk hung once in the middle of fixing bad sectors. I restarted
> it and now it's been about 3 hours on stage 4 (verifying file data).
>
> Is this a reasonable time for this or should I conclude that it's hung
> up again?
>
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