CHKDSK Slows To A Crawl

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Blewyn

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Am running chkdsk on my C: drive (scheduled on boot) and it runs OK at about 3000 sectors per second then slows to a crawl - I left it running for 8 hours and it got to about 50% of the last step (4 of 5) but by that time was slo slow it would have taken hours more to finish.

Any ideas ?
 

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Blewyn said:
Am running chkdsk on my C: drive (scheduled on boot) and it runs OK at about 3000 sectors per second then slows to a crawl - I left it running for 8 hours and it got to about 50% of the last step (4 of 5) but by that time was slo slow it would have taken hours more to finish.

Any ideas ?
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How full is the drive? How much free space?
 

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In addition, how big is the C: partition on your drive?
 

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The drive is a 464GB actual (ie 500GB)
The windows partition is 414GB, with 139GB free.
 

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It could be that there are areas on disk that need fixing, and this just takes time, the amount of which being dependant on the number and types of errors that it encounters.
 

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It has now been running for 3.5 hrs, and has reached stage 3 (verifying security descriptors), and is running at around 20 per second (there are 212736), and has about 90 minutes to go at this rate until it reaches stage 4. Is this normal, or is my HD crapping out ?

If so, is there a quick and easy way for me to clone a new 500GB HD, or will I have to reinstall everything ?
 

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Hi.

1. how old is the HD.
2. did you do a disk cleanup first.
3. did you defrag disk 2nd.
4. big disks take time if 1. and 2. have not been done 1st.:)
 

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OLD!!! does the job i need.
The HD is relatively new - it's a 500GB 2.5in so it can't be more than a year or two from manufacture, right ?

I did not run a cleanup but I did defrag. The defrag program reported 0% fragmentation but I ran it anyway.

Now (7hrs into the chkdsk run) it's at 15% of task 4, doing around 10 sectors per second, but every now and again it stops completely for minutes at a time. At this speed it needs another 5 hours to complete stage 4....
 

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Let it finish. If you keep interrupting it, it has to start from the beginning again and it can end up taking longer than it would do had you allowed to finish in the first place.. Only when it has completed running will the flag be cleared that tells the system to run it upon boot.
 

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ViewSonic VA1912w Widescreen (VGA)
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OCZ Agility 3 SSD 120GB SATA III x2 (RAID 0)
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB SATA II x2
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WD 2.0TB Ext USB 3.0
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XFX Pro Series 850W Semi-Modular
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Gigabyte IF233
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1 x 120mm Front Inlet 1 x 120mm Rear Exhaust
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Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 (USB)
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Microsoft Comfort Mouse 3000 for Business (USB)
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NetGear DG834Gv3 ADSL Modem/Router (Ethernet) ~4.0 Mb/s (O2)
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Avast! 8.0.1497
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Now it has completely stopped for about 20mins.....
 

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HD5870
Don't worry, just give it time. In fact, just to make you feel slightly better, the commercial program Spinrite which does a similar type of job (although it operates at a more fundamental level than ChkDsk), has been known to take several weeeks to complete its scanning in some cases.
 

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Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
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Intel Core-i5-3570K 4-core @ 3.4GHz (Ivy Bridge) (OC 4.4GHz)
Motherboard
ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M
Memory
4 x 4GB DDR3-1600 Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (16GB)
Graphics Card(s)
MSI GeForce GTX770 Gaming OC 2GB
Sound Card
Realtek High Definition on board solution (ALC 898)
Monitor(s) Displays
ViewSonic VA1912w Widescreen (VGA)
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Hard Drives
OCZ Agility 3 SSD 120GB SATA III x2 (RAID 0)
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB SATA II x2
Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 1TB SATA II
Iomega 1.5TB Ext USB 2.0
WD 2.0TB Ext USB 3.0
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XFX Pro Series 850W Semi-Modular
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Gigabyte IF233
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1 x 120mm Front Inlet 1 x 120mm Rear Exhaust
Keyboard
Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 (USB)
Mouse
Microsoft Comfort Mouse 3000 for Business (USB)
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NetGear DG834Gv3 ADSL Modem/Router (Ethernet) ~4.0 Mb/s (O2)
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Avast! 8.0.1497
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IE 11
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Optical Drive: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS30 SATA Bluray
Lexmark S305 Printer/Scanner/Copier (USB)
WEI Score: 8.1/8.1/8.5/8.5/8.25
Asus Eee PC 1011PX Netbook (Windows 7 x86 Starter)
What if I take the drive out, put it in an enclosure and connect it to my desktop, then Chkdsk it from there ? Will it work better ?
 

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Gigabyte
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6GB
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HD5870
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