[GRLUG] nonlinux: chkdsk on win

Mon May 16 13:47:35 EDT 2011

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 13:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> 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.

Do any of the live-distro's run SMART?  That would be a good test [if
the live distro supported SMART].  Just boot the live distro and "dd
if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=4096" and see if SMART fires any events. 

Even without SMART that is my favorite way to check a physical disk.

> 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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