Chkdsk hangs stage 5 vista

If you wind up having to manually reinstall, make sure the tech you are talking to also sends any discs you would need to reinstall- like the Vista version of Roxio, etc. D-fish, thank you,. You are talking about fail codes, Several messages were generated with diag, but only their annouces were readable during diags. Thank you all. Dell-Bill B. Since that changing, my microphone does not work anymore, could you help me to have it right, I do not fing the place to look at.

Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. All rights reserved. Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! Hi, I have ran chkdsk a few times now on a Dell Inspirion Toshiba gb hdd. Ran chkdsk from the vista recovery disc completed ok?

I have also run a couple of third-party hdd apps and found nothing wrong. Why would chkdsk running from the hard drive hang? Chris B. Join our community to see this answer!

Therefore, it is normal that several hours even a day is required. Let it run overnight if you feel it is repairing something. On the other hand, it could be the problem of Check Disk utility.

If the final purpose is to perform a disk checking, you can ignore the stuck trouble and check disk with other utilities. To do that, force a shutdown and restart your computer. You may find it is about to run disk check at the boot. Press Esc, Enter, or any key according to the prompting message to abort the process. And then, start your Windows 10 normally. After that, give following methods a shot to check your hard disk. System File Checker is a utility in Windows 10 that allows you to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and repair missing or corrupted system files if any.

You may want to clean up disk space for Windows 10 before you start. It requires a reboot after scanning or repairing. If you encounter disk checking again at the boot, stop it as instructed. If you get this message: Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations, back after the checking, it means there is nothing wrong with your system files.