Chkdsk and Scandisk both lock trying to check my directory structure.

Menbailee · 03-16-2008, 02:40 PM

Under Win2k on an Intel 2.4Ghz Pentium with 1GB of RAM, both utilities and a third-party utility I tried will grind at the hard drive indefinitely at about the 8% mark during step two, scanning of indexes or directories. This includes running chkdsk in the startup process. The hard drive, an 80GB labeled IBM Deskstar, has two partitions: a 6.5 GB one for the OS and essential programs, and a 73.5GB one for files, games, and everything else. The problem only comes with the second and larger partition. Just last night, I defragmented the drive, though after completing the job the Windows defragmention program now complains that Chkdsk is scheduled to run before I attempt another defrag. The hard drive gives me no troubles other than this. A surface scan finds no errors. I hope I'm giving enough information to make the problem clear. Is there a program smart enough to correct whatever is tripping up the others? What could be going wrong here?

Thanks!

**Deleted090308** · 03-16-2008, 04:17 PM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

The IBM Deskstars are/were infamous for crashing.

Run Hitachi's Drive fitness test to check the drive for mechanical errors (Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive division in 2002).

03-16-2008, 02:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
Menbailee Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Win2K	Chkdsk and Scandisk both lock trying to check my directory structure. Under Win2k on an Intel 2.4Ghz Pentium with 1GB of RAM, both utilities and a third-party utility I tried will grind at the hard drive indefinitely at about the 8% mark during step two, scanning of indexes or directories. This includes running chkdsk in the startup process. The hard drive, an 80GB labeled IBM Deskstar, has two partitions: a 6.5 GB one for the OS and essential programs, and a 73.5GB one for files, games, and everything else. The problem only comes with the second and larger partition. Just last night, I defragmented the drive, though after completing the job the Windows defragmention program now complains that Chkdsk is scheduled to run before I attempt another defrag. The hard drive gives me no troubles other than this. A surface scan finds no errors. I hope I'm giving enough information to make the problem clear. Is there a program smart enough to correct whatever is tripping up the others? What could be going wrong here? Thanks! Last edited by Menbailee; 03-16-2008 at 02:51 PM.

03-16-2008, 04:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Chkdsk and Scandisk both lock trying to check my directory structure. Hi, welcome to TSF. The IBM Deskstars are/were infamous for crashing. Run Hitachi's Drive fitness test to check the drive for mechanical errors (Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive division in 2002).