CHKDSK taking forever on 60 GB HDD.

Fred Garvin · 10 Feb 2012

imeem said:

Adding 6524 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.

IMNSHO, ^ that message right there tells me Replace the hard drive without thinking twice.

imeem · 10 Feb 2012

Layback Bear said:

How old is that 60 gig hard drive?

at least 5 Years old. Came from my broken ps3 that was purchased in 2007. I just put unimportant files and fraps videos on to that HDD.

Golden · 10 Feb 2012

imeem said:

Golden said:

Hi,

You need to run chkdsk /R which will mark bad sectors so that data won't be written to these bad sectors in future.

Please run that, and let us know how you went with that.

Regards,
Golden

nothing pops up when I run it.

Hi,

I'm not sure I understand you...what do you mean by "nothing pops-up"?

Regards,
Golden

Layback Bear · 11 Feb 2012

A 5 year old ps3 60 gig drive really isn't worth putting much time into. With that many errors I would just get another drive.

imeem · 11 Feb 2012

Golden said:

imeem said:

Golden said:

Hi,

You need to run chkdsk /R which will mark bad sectors so that data won't be written to these bad sectors in future.

Please run that, and let us know how you went with that.

Regards,
Golden

nothing pops up when I run it.

Hi,

I'm not sure I understand you...what do you mean by "nothing pops-up"?

Regards,
Golden

Ok i ran chkdsk /r . But it closes by itself, is it normal?

Layback Bear said:

A 5 year old ps3 60 gig drive really isn't worth putting much time into. With that many errors I would just get another drive.

As I have said, i use it to store unimportant files. i'm planning to keep using the 5 year old HDD until it dies or until I notice it makes my computer unstable/slow.

Golden · 11 Feb 2012

Hi,

It would close itself if you were running it from a CMD window which is not elevated, so yes that is normal. Try running the command from an elevated cmd window.

Regards,
Golden

ICIT2LOL · 11 Nov 2015

If you want an alternative disk check try a surface test with Partition Wizard Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free install it and run as in my pic - it is a physical test rather than a software one ie the platter surfaces and to some extent the read / write arm and actuators.

Golden · 11 Nov 2015

John....This thread was last active in 2012. Are you in the wrong thread.???

ICIT2LOL · 12 Nov 2015

Yep I am I was looking for soemthing similar for another thread

optimum87 · 30 Nov 2021

I was running CHKDSK on a good partition. It looked like it was getting stuck in phase 4 because the percentage complete was going up so slowly. I gained confidence when I used Resource Monitor to see the speed at which the disk was being accessed. A quick "back-of-the envelope" calculation based on the speed and disk size gave me an estimate that it would complete in 2.5 hours. It was done when I came back several hours later.