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CHKDSK running 24hours now, decreasingly slow - Please Help!
Hi folks,
Iīm running a german version of Win7 on my notebook.
Some time ago I discovered a broken fotograph-file, so I ran a check, and it discovered 6 "schwebende Sektoren", what translates to sth like floating sector or sector on the edge or maybe even bad sector - donīt know the english terminus.
I then tried to secure the data using the windows backup-utility, but it failed. What i did then was to run a checkdisk using the win7-utility (Computer - Drive C: - Porperties - Tools..), afterwards I could backup using the win7 utility.
Yesterday I tried again to backup my system, with the same error, so I thought, OK, it worked last time, so let me check the harddrive first.
It started nicely, but then after a while it got really slow.
Yesterday at 11pm it reached this point:
99% done. (99056202 of 100059133 free clusters processed.)
(translated in my own words, an english-speaking windows might call it sth alike)
Now, 9 hours later it reached
99077202 of 100059133 free clusters. that is 21000 clusters in 9 hours. Anticipated it keeps working this speed it will take 420 hours to finish.
Yesterday evening 1000 clusters used to take 20minutes, now they take an hour so itīs actually still decreasing speed. However it didnīt stop yet completely.
Trouble is, I did this to backup the system, so Iīm actually stuck doing my backup.
I still have important data on the harddrive, that would be sad to lose (about a weeks work).
Two questions:
1.) Is it very unusual that it takes that long? Is widows actually working on the bad sectors right now, and will speed up once it is passed them? In other words - can I expect a happy outcome of this chkdsk, or did it fail already? I could wait another 48 hours, then I definitely need to keep on working.
2.) Is there a SAFE way to stop this now? Then I could backup my data manually before buying a new harddisk.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
thanks,
tolk.