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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 27, 2017, 04:23:46 pm »
I can open some of them fine on the laptop so doesn't look like it. Thanks again for all your help!
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 27, 2017, 11:20:41 am »
Yeah, at this point I'd agree on the 3 days part. But it did move on to Stage 4 of 5 and there's 9 messages about Windows replacing bad clusters. It's at 290592 of 411888.
And yes, there's a bunch of personal stuff on there. I have backups but not of a few new folders, so hopefully this'll be enough of a fix I can do that.
I didn't upgrade to Windows 8.1 since at the time I was hearing enough about how it wasn't exactly a "fix" and 8 was running fine enough for me so didn't see the need to.
I'll look into Puppy Linux a bit more. I was hoping to just be able to put the drive in a external shell and copy some of the files over with a USB line.
UPDATE:
It's done with the check. It says 243 bad clusters were added to the Bad Clusters File. Windows has made corrections to the file system. No further action is required. Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
I was able to enter the commands like you said and it booted to Safe Mode so I can grab my files. Also downloaded the Bluescreen file onto a USB and will transfer it over to my laptop to see what it says.
FURTHER UPDATE:
I ran the Bluescreen program and it came back to two readings. I'd post the screenshots but figure it was moot since I ran HDSentinel right after and it said the HD health was at 0% and to backup immediately.
At least I was able to grab the newer folders I hadn't backed up yet.
And yes, there's a bunch of personal stuff on there. I have backups but not of a few new folders, so hopefully this'll be enough of a fix I can do that.
I didn't upgrade to Windows 8.1 since at the time I was hearing enough about how it wasn't exactly a "fix" and 8 was running fine enough for me so didn't see the need to.
I'll look into Puppy Linux a bit more. I was hoping to just be able to put the drive in a external shell and copy some of the files over with a USB line.
UPDATE:
It's done with the check. It says 243 bad clusters were added to the Bad Clusters File. Windows has made corrections to the file system. No further action is required. Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
I was able to enter the commands like you said and it booted to Safe Mode so I can grab my files. Also downloaded the Bluescreen file onto a USB and will transfer it over to my laptop to see what it says.
FURTHER UPDATE:
I ran the Bluescreen program and it came back to two readings. I'd post the screenshots but figure it was moot since I ran HDSentinel right after and it said the HD health was at 0% and to backup immediately.
At least I was able to grab the newer folders I hadn't backed up yet.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 26, 2017, 05:24:48 pm »
Ok. I'll try it if it can get to that point. It's been holding at Stage 2 of 5 for the past 5 hours saying 11 percent complete, 411913 of 539966 index entries processed. The cursor is still blinking and I can move it around so it hasn't frozen up.
Any advice if it stays at that number? Not sure if I should close the command prompt and try again.
Stage 1 was completed with all files verified and 0 bad file records processed.
Any advice if it stays at that number? Not sure if I should close the command prompt and try again.
Stage 1 was completed with all files verified and 0 bad file records processed.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 26, 2017, 11:02:57 am »
I've got an old HP laptop (running XP) I use if the ASUS gives me trouble, so I either post from that or my phone.
If I can get back to the command screen, I'll give what you wrote a shot. Now it's taking me to the login screen, but either I can't log in because:
1. The login isn't accepting anything I type in that it stays blank some of the time. The mouse arrow moves around but when I click in the login box, it changes to the typing icon but that's it.
2. It accepts the password (sometimes it takes a couple minutes for each of the password dots to show up as the password gets typed out), looks like it's about to take me to the main screen but kicks me back to the Windows 8 prelogin screen with the graphic of Seattle. Normally it includes the time and an option to restart/shutdown/etc., but none of these options are showing up now, it's just the Seattle graphic.
One other thing I noticed - if I keep the laptop plugged, that's when it will make its way to the login screen, even if I restart it by taking out the battery. If I unplug it and take out the battery & turn it on, that's when it goes into the "diagnosing the PC" mode, so I might be able to give your advice a shot.
BTW, if this post has exceeded the scope of the original topic, I can start up a new one in the other forum. Didn't want to derail the original thread if this doesn't apply.
UPDATE: Success in that I was able to open the Command Prompt, typed in what you said and the current status is: "Verifying files: Stage 1 of 5). 1 percent complete. (50177 of 411904 file records processed).
Looks like this'll take a bit so I'll post again with the results.
If I can get back to the command screen, I'll give what you wrote a shot. Now it's taking me to the login screen, but either I can't log in because:
1. The login isn't accepting anything I type in that it stays blank some of the time. The mouse arrow moves around but when I click in the login box, it changes to the typing icon but that's it.
2. It accepts the password (sometimes it takes a couple minutes for each of the password dots to show up as the password gets typed out), looks like it's about to take me to the main screen but kicks me back to the Windows 8 prelogin screen with the graphic of Seattle. Normally it includes the time and an option to restart/shutdown/etc., but none of these options are showing up now, it's just the Seattle graphic.
One other thing I noticed - if I keep the laptop plugged, that's when it will make its way to the login screen, even if I restart it by taking out the battery. If I unplug it and take out the battery & turn it on, that's when it goes into the "diagnosing the PC" mode, so I might be able to give your advice a shot.
BTW, if this post has exceeded the scope of the original topic, I can start up a new one in the other forum. Didn't want to derail the original thread if this doesn't apply.
UPDATE: Success in that I was able to open the Command Prompt, typed in what you said and the current status is: "Verifying files: Stage 1 of 5). 1 percent complete. (50177 of 411904 file records processed).
Looks like this'll take a bit so I'll post again with the results.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 25, 2017, 06:42:13 pm »
Thanks for the info. I think it's coming to the point where I need to take my laptop out to the back and shoot it.
I'd left my computer on when I stepped out and it'd shut down automatically at some point. Turned it back on and the login screen came on but I couldn't type the password for whatever reason and when I tried to restart by clicking on the option in the lower right corner, nothing happened. So I turned the power off & back on and the ASUS screen shows up, then the screen went black. After 5 minutes and nothing happening, I restart the laptop. The ASUS screen comes back with some type on the bottom stating it's going into "Diagnosing the PC", then switches to "Automatic Repair" to fix the disk.
Then I get a screen of options since Automatic Repair didn't fix the issue. Since one was the Command Prompt option, I clicked on that to try Chkdisk /r, which didn't work since it had a system32 prompt, not the admin,. Tried a system restore but there's supposedly no restore points even though I'd created one. I'm trying Automatic Repair one last time before doing a system refresh. I hate to reload all my programs but might have to.
So basically this laptop seems to be farked.
I'd left my computer on when I stepped out and it'd shut down automatically at some point. Turned it back on and the login screen came on but I couldn't type the password for whatever reason and when I tried to restart by clicking on the option in the lower right corner, nothing happened. So I turned the power off & back on and the ASUS screen shows up, then the screen went black. After 5 minutes and nothing happening, I restart the laptop. The ASUS screen comes back with some type on the bottom stating it's going into "Diagnosing the PC", then switches to "Automatic Repair" to fix the disk.
Then I get a screen of options since Automatic Repair didn't fix the issue. Since one was the Command Prompt option, I clicked on that to try Chkdisk /r, which didn't work since it had a system32 prompt, not the admin,. Tried a system restore but there's supposedly no restore points even though I'd created one. I'm trying Automatic Repair one last time before doing a system refresh. I hate to reload all my programs but might have to.
So basically this laptop seems to be farked.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 25, 2017, 08:47:35 am »
If I've got a year or less, then that's certainly long enough to learn how to image the drive and it's just a matter of switching out the HHD's. Or I might check and see what the latest laptops are like and upgrade. Not sure yet.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 24, 2017, 11:36:52 am »
I'd agree, and I do appreciate your time in this post and tips, especially with HD Sentinel.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 24, 2017, 08:57:31 am »
Ok, ran a report and there were a few instances of "Read failure..." followed by "Windows replaced bad clusters in file..." and ended with "adding 4 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters file", Windows had made corrections to the file system and no further action was required.
I also downloaded HD Sentinel and found out I've got 410 days for my hard drive's estimated remaining lifetime, and while it had a 100% performance, it's health was at 52%, so that's good to know.
I also downloaded HD Sentinel and found out I've got 410 days for my hard drive's estimated remaining lifetime, and while it had a 100% performance, it's health was at 52%, so that's good to know.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 23, 2017, 07:28:49 pm »
Thanks, I'll check out the HDSentinel when I can.
Ran a Chkdisk /r and I'm right back to it holding at 28% so I'll leave it running overnight.
Ran a Chkdisk /r and I'm right back to it holding at 28% so I'll leave it running overnight.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 23, 2017, 08:53:31 am »
Gotcha.
The Wininit screen says I'm fine (though a couple bad sectors). The ChkDisk screen says there's errors and can't continue. Screenshots below.
I'll go with the false positive for Check Disk.
The Wininit screen says I'm fine (though a couple bad sectors). The ChkDisk screen says there's errors and can't continue. Screenshots below.
I'll go with the false positive for Check Disk.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 23, 2017, 05:46:01 am »
Yup, just finished with a chkdsk /f, did the shutdown command and it rebooted.
I've got the event viewer open but when I expand Windows Logs, I don't see anything which says "Action/Find". I did type wininit into the Find box and hit enter. Though I do see a file name wininit which comes up, nothing appears when I click on the file directly or hit enter.
I've got the event viewer open but when I expand Windows Logs, I don't see anything which says "Action/Find". I did type wininit into the Find box and hit enter. Though I do see a file name wininit which comes up, nothing appears when I click on the file directly or hit enter.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 23, 2017, 05:10:56 am »
Well, I downloaded the program out of curiousity and started going through the steps (power reset, pre-scan) just to see how it'd do and what it'd tweak. When I got to the Check Disk section, I went through Step 1 to see if a Check Disk was needed, and it told me there were errors on the disk and "Check Disk" was needed. I just ran it again (precheck only and did a screenshot.
I checked the log and it starts off with:
"The type of the file system is NTFS. The volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk might report errors when no corruption is present.
WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode."
You'll see the rest of the message in the second screenshot. After reading through some of the info on the Tweaking.com site, I figure it was a false positive.
I checked the log and it starts off with:
"The type of the file system is NTFS. The volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk might report errors when no corruption is present.
WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode."
You'll see the rest of the message in the second screenshot. After reading through some of the info on the Tweaking.com site, I figure it was a false positive.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 22, 2017, 06:08:50 pm »
I don't remember other than the program prompting to restart and going into Safe Mode while doing a repair for the issues it found.
EDIT: Apparently patience is indeed a virtue. Just checked my laptop and the log on screen was on. After I logged in, it started in Safe Mode with no issues and and I was able to restart and got it out of Safe Mode.
Again, thanks for your patience!
EDIT: Apparently patience is indeed a virtue. Just checked my laptop and the log on screen was on. After I logged in, it started in Safe Mode with no issues and and I was able to restart and got it out of Safe Mode.
Again, thanks for your patience!
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:00:02 pm »
Ok, should I just be sitting tight then till this is done or is there anything else I can do if it's still at 28% tomorrow?
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 22, 2017, 03:24:35 pm »
Sorry, should've been more clear on which screen I was on (I was about to ask what "red cross" you were talking about).
This disk check isn't happening when I'm still logged in, it's happening after the system rebooted but before the login screen appears.
I've attached a photo for a better example.
This disk check isn't happening when I'm still logged in, it's happening after the system rebooted but before the login screen appears.
I've attached a photo for a better example.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 22, 2017, 02:48:20 pm »
Your patience with the newbie is much appreciated.
I'm guessing to do what you mentioned, I'll have to turn off the laptop and turn it back on? It's still at 28%.
To answer your comments: "Was this a proper chkdsk with either a /f or /r parameter which could only be run on the next reboot before Windows was loaded?" "Let us know how that proceeds, but why did you feel the need to run the Windows Repair program?"
I ran the repair program because I started with a scan and it said the disk had errors, recommendingI run the repair program after giving me the option to go into Safe mode. I don't remember an /f or /r parameter being given.
I'm guessing to do what you mentioned, I'll have to turn off the laptop and turn it back on? It's still at 28%.
To answer your comments: "Was this a proper chkdsk with either a /f or /r parameter which could only be run on the next reboot before Windows was loaded?" "Let us know how that proceeds, but why did you feel the need to run the Windows Repair program?"
I ran the repair program because I started with a scan and it said the disk had errors, recommendingI run the repair program after giving me the option to go into Safe mode. I don't remember an /f or /r parameter being given.
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Tweaking.com Support & Help / CHKDISK Halting at 28% During Startup
« on: March 22, 2017, 01:05:49 pm »
Hi Folks,
Decided to give Tweaking.com's Windows Repair after seeing it recommended by MajorGeeks.com. Ran through the initial power down steps, etc., did a CHKDISK scan & it said there were errors. Before I went into the CHKDISK repair proper, I selected "yes" when it asked if I wanted to go into Safe Mode before continuing.
Rebooted my laptop and CHKDISK started its runthrough. The program says its "Scanning and Repairing Drive "C:": 28% Complete". However it's stayed at 28% for an hour and fifteen minutes.
Is it actually supposed to take this long for checking one section? I've got an ASUS Q500 laptop running Windows 8. Thanks!
Decided to give Tweaking.com's Windows Repair after seeing it recommended by MajorGeeks.com. Ran through the initial power down steps, etc., did a CHKDISK scan & it said there were errors. Before I went into the CHKDISK repair proper, I selected "yes" when it asked if I wanted to go into Safe Mode before continuing.
Rebooted my laptop and CHKDISK started its runthrough. The program says its "Scanning and Repairing Drive "C:": 28% Complete". However it's stayed at 28% for an hour and fifteen minutes.
Is it actually supposed to take this long for checking one section? I've got an ASUS Q500 laptop running Windows 8. Thanks!
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