Chkdsk freezes at stage 4.

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Hawknight42

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Hi everyone,

I've been reading a few threads about chkdsk, but I guess I haven't found any answers yet. So basically my computer started lagging this afternoon like hell even though I didn't do anything special, the OS was struggling to just open the start menu. So I manually turned my computer off, but I got a disk error which would tell me just to restart my computer. After a few tries, it managed to boot and I started it back in safe mode. It was still pretty laggy, but then it was all ok.
I decided to do a chkdsk on my C drive, which is a 1TB drive with about 20% used.
It all went well, but it's now been around 4hours that it's stuck in stage 4 of 5 at 12%. I'm going to leave it run a for a while, but I would like to know if I can turn my computer off if in the next 8hours it hasn't changed ?
My HDD light doesn't seem to be on, and my fans are running quite high, but I can't really hear my HDD doing anything - I think.

I'm running W7.

Thanks.
 
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You do not want to interrupt the disk check process. Sometimes it will linger more on certain stages or files. Trust me, I too felt that it froze sometimes because often the process would spend several minutes being stuck on, for example, Checking 49372 of 283738 kb. Just let it do its thing as the process can take a long time.
 
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Hawknight42

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Well, I left it all night and it's still stuck at the same exact place for more than 15 hours now. It doesn't seem to be going on or doing anything..

I'm probably going to turn my computer off, is that all right ?
 
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Hmmm, yea it sounds like something is wrong if it's still on the same spot after 15 hours. If your HDD activity light isn't doing anything, then you should be fine to power it down. Restart it and try to go into Safe Mode. If the OS still lags, then it most likely would indicate an issue with your hardware or the OS itself. If you have the chance, you should make a backup or clone of your data if it's crucial to have, if you haven't made a backup already. Worst case scenario would be your HDD or another component is failing. Well, I guess the worst case would actually be your whole computer catches on fire. But that's unlikely.
 
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Well, I guess the worst case would actually be your whole computer catches on fire. But that's unlikely.
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No, the worst case would be if a volcano erupted under your house just as you turned it off and the lava spewed up into the entire town and made it completely unlivable. But that too, is unlikely.

The only reported case of a laptop bursting into flames was due to some faulty battery that was being used in a very specific brand about 5 years ago. You do NOT have to worry about your laptop catching on fire.

I think you may need to raise the age limit to post in here!
 
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