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Boggin:
While that error could indicate a failing HDD, that would seem to contradict what HD Sentinel had reported, so did a Google on that and one solution that got the chkdsk /r to complete, was to wipe the free space.

You can do this with the free version of CCleaner in its Advanced options by checking Wipe Space on the default page. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

It will take a while to complete but try the chkdsk /r again after.

Nomad:
Boggin

I did as you said: wiped C: drive free space with CCleaner (3 passes) and ran chkdsk C: /r after, and it stopped again, this time "49 percentage concluded (23982004 from 55624671 free clusters processed), so I restarted using power button again.
Then I ran chkdsk C: in read only mode and it finished saying (maybe the most important part?): 
   
                                                                                                                             "Windows checked the file system and did not find any problem.
                                                                                                                                                                303483883 KB disk total space.
                                                                                                                                                                   86142592 KB in 166210 files.
                                                                                                                                                                         86564 KB in 30195 indexes.
                                                                                                                                                                                 0 KB in bad sectors.
                                                                                                                                                                       324275 KB being used by the system.
                                                                                                                                                                         65536 KB ocupied by registry file.
                                                                                                                                                                 216930452 KB available in disk."   

   What now??     

Boggin:
Don't know - never come across this problem before.

It's a bit late here in the UK for me to do some more digging, but you could Google the problem to see if any other solutions pop up.

Shane:
How long did you let chkdsk go before restarting the system?

A lot of times it will appear to be stuck at a cluster for a very long time if that cluster is bad.

But yet it shows 0 bad sectors and finally finished the scan, but not till you had to restart it a few times.

That means that if the hard drive is getting hot or is dropping out then it would lock or freeze the system because everything is running off of it. So if the drive just cut out during the chkdsk then the chkdsk would simply freeze up because it would never stop trying to access the data.

Right now it does sound like your freezing problems are your hard drive dropping out :wink:

Shane

Nomad:
Shane

Both times I tried the CHKDSK /r, it went for about 1 and a half hours (it´s a 320 GB drive), before the drive light blinked no more; I still waited some minutes, hoping some activity sign but there was none.

I'm not getting what you are telling:
 1) Shouldn't I have shut the computer because it might be just apparently "dead"?
 2) If so and in case of beeing stuck at a bad cluster, would it "ask" me to restart?
 3) So, when it gets to a (very) bad cluster it drops out and the freezing happens. Does this mean that CHKDSK /r has not enough "healing" power to correct that cluster?
 4) What's the meaning of "drive dropping out" (sorry, english is not my native language)?

Thank you for your patience.

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