Hi
I have a laptop running XP home and every time I boot it, it runs chkdsk
which is taking a couple of hours. It reports segments are unreadable. Is
there anyway to stop this happening? If I hit escape prior to the chkdsk it
just seems to freeze.
Thanks in advance
Elmo68

Elmo68 wrote:
> I have a laptop running XP home and every time I boot it, it runs
> chkdsk which is taking a couple of hours. It reports segments are
> unreadable. Is there anyway to stop this happening? If I hit escape
> prior to the chkdsk it just seems to freeze.

Yes..
Replace the bad hardware. Your hard drive has obvious (and reported to you)
issues.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Shenan, thanks for the reply, this only started after installing some camera
software, which I have uninstalled. The laptop is only six months old and
still under guarantee, do you think its definately a hard disk problem or is
it worth running some disk doctor software?
--
Elmo68


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Elmo68 wrote:
> > I have a laptop running XP home and every time I boot it, it runs
> > chkdsk which is taking a couple of hours. It reports segments are
> > unreadable. Is there anyway to stop this happening? If I hit escape
> > prior to the chkdsk it just seems to freeze.
>
> Yes..
> Replace the bad hardware. Your hard drive has obvious (and reported to you)
> issues.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Elmo68 wrote:
> I have a laptop running XP home and every time I boot it, it runs
> chkdsk which is taking a couple of hours. It reports segments are
> unreadable. Is there anyway to stop this happening? If I hit
> escape prior to the chkdsk it just seems to freeze.

Shenan wrote:
> Yes..
> Replace the bad hardware. Your hard drive has obvious (and
> reported to you) issues.

Elmo68 wrote:
> Shenan, thanks for the reply, this only started after installing
> some camera software, which I have uninstalled. The laptop is only
> six months old and still under guarantee, do you think its
> definately a hard disk problem or is it worth running some disk
> doctor software?

CHKDSK checks the surface of your hard disk drive for errors. If it is
reporting issues - you probably have issues. The coincidence of it
happening after you installed software may not actually be coincidence - but
the fact you used parts of the hard disk drive you never used before.

You may want to contact your laptop manufacturer (look on their web page)
and see if they have utilities available for you to test the hard drive
with.. At least get them to tell you the probable name-brand of the hard
disk drive in the laptop so you could go to the actual manufacturer's web
page (for the drive) and download/utilize their tester.

But before you do ANY of that - backup your stuff... Things may be on the
edge of going wrong here - and since you have a warning better take
advantage of it. *grin*

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Run Chkdsk /f /r to detect and resolve any file system structural
corruption. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins on
a system partition.
Then go play a couple of games of pool at your local Pool Hall

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Elmo68 wrote:
| > I have a laptop running XP home and every time I boot it, it runs
| > chkdsk which is taking a couple of hours. It reports segments are
| > unreadable. Is there anyway to stop this happening? If I hit
| > escape prior to the chkdsk it just seems to freeze.
|
| Shenan wrote:
| > Yes..
| > Replace the bad hardware. Your hard drive has obvious (and
| > reported to you) issues.
|
| Elmo68 wrote:
| > Shenan, thanks for the reply, this only started after installing
| > some camera software, which I have uninstalled. The laptop is only
| > six months old and still under guarantee, do you think its
| > definately a hard disk problem or is it worth running some disk
| > doctor software?
|
| CHKDSK checks the surface of your hard disk drive for errors. If it
is
| reporting issues - you probably have issues. The coincidence of it
| happening after you installed software may not actually be
coincidence - but
| the fact you used parts of the hard disk drive you never used
before.
|
| You may want to contact your laptop manufacturer (look on their web
page)
| and see if they have utilities available for you to test the hard
drive
| with.. At least get them to tell you the probable name-brand of the
hard
| disk drive in the laptop so you could go to the actual
manufacturer's web
| page (for the drive) and download/utilize their tester.
|
| But before you do ANY of that - backup your stuff... Things may be
on the
| edge of going wrong here - and since you have a warning better take
| advantage of it. *grin*
|
| --
| Shenan Stanley
| MS-MVP
| --
| How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
| http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
|
|