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System Restore points silently disappear
Shane:
It sounds like the chkdsk froze up, which happens if it hits a bad sector OR if there is bad memory. Chkdsk uses a lot of memory. I have had chkdsk lock up on me before from it.
So if chkdsk did at least make it to the end then if it found any bad sectors it would have marked them, so you should be able to run chkdsk in read only mode and we can make sure it still says 0 KB in bad sectors.
So just run
chkdsk C:
Also if you havent yet, running a memory test would be a good idea, and we should make sure you have the latest chipset drivers installed as well :-)
Shane
Steevo:
It did make it to the end and said it was going to reboot, that's where the hang was.
It mentioned fixing things. Too bad the logs didn't get written.
I'll try it again in read only.
I'll have to make a bootable memtest86 disk, unless you have another suggestion.
Shane:
memtest should be good, I actually saved the Microsoft memory tester, it did a good job, not sure why they removed it off their site.
Shane
Steevo:
I ran chkdsk on my system drive in read only, and it passed with no errors.
Is your preferred memory test from ms uploaded somewhere?
Should I use that? I'd like to try it.
Shane:
Did the chkdsk show 0 KB in bad sectors at the end of the scan when it was done?
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.09.utilityspotlight.aspx
Which points to
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Microsoft-Windows-Memory-Diagnostic-Download-3648.html
Shane
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