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    CHKDSK Help!!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Sage32, Aug 30, 2012.

  1. Sage32

    Sage32 Notebook Enthusiast

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    So for some reason, my laptop's HDD was flagged as dirty by windows, and wouldn't show up in the built in defragger. In order to fix this, I scheduled chkdsk to run on boot time...


    I let the utility do its own thing, and after it reached stage 5 of 5, it now says Adding 840741119 bad clusters to bad clusters file. Isn't that an exceedingly high number?

    The Computer worked flawlessly, it's just that annoynace that I could defrag the HDD with that flag on. I suspect that the stupid sleep mode I used earlier in the day caused it.


    Shall I just leave it there or reset the computer and interrupt the process? Help...
     
    Sage32, Aug 30, 2012
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    Sage32 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It completed and the PC booted smoothly... but now the HDD reports that there's only 1.25GB left!


    I checked all the directories in /C but nothing seems to be abnormally high size.

    Stupid microsoft APP!!!
     
    Sage32, Aug 30, 2012
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    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    I think the problem is the hard drive, not Microsoft. 800 million bad sectors? Something's not kosher.
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Aug 30, 2012
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