Re: CHKDSK hangs -- HDD failing?


In article <7dq3cmF2cu3n8U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

I have a fairly old but operational 2002 self-built system running
Windows XP Home SP3 from a Maxtor 15 GB HDD (mainly for
legacy games that don't like newer hardware). Windows has
started reporting corrupted system files, and when I attempted
to "Ghost" the drive with Acronis TrueImage Home, it aborted
almost immediately with the error, "Index Corrupted".

I attempted to do a full-sector CHKDSK on the system partition,
but when CHKDSK tried to run after restart, it immediately gave
the error, "Cannot open volume for direct access" and after a
few seconds, proceeded to boot Windows normally.

Increasingly puzzled, I attempted -- several times -- to run CHKDSK
from Recovery Console. Each time it gives the following output:

The volume Serial Number is bcff-a6ab
CHKDSK is checking the volume...
CHKDSK is performing additonal checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additonal checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additonal checking or recovery...

It then *appears* to scan the disk giving its progress in %. But at
about 75% it jumps back to 50%, then slowly climbs back toward
75%, then falls back again to 50%... This repeats several times,
until it finally hangs (drive LED remains dark), at some point
between 75 and 100%. I am forced to do a cold reboot at this point.

So is the drive failing? -- I also did a full SMART surface scan on
the drive with Maxtor's diagnostic software, but it claims the drive
is fine and dandy... ???

Any idea what's going on?

Post the Everest SMART report.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

If the hardware looks good, suggest running the check with the OS sleeping
(i.e. boot a LiveCD and check from there). Ran into all kinds of bogus
file and disk corruption problems on my nephew's machine when he got
himself infected by a rootkit. All disappeared after removing the virus.



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