Checking Disk taking too long

[CBMuir]

I have a drive that is a 15 GB partition on a 80 GB disk. It is an old disk, so could be failing, but action is strange. Other partitions on the drive succsessfully completed the checking disk procedure, but the 15 GB partition is taking an enourmous amount of time for each file after a swift run of the first 300 files. After that, I'm estimating it takes 10 minutes per file and has been running since 11AM yesterday. It is now near 8AM and it is still only at file 781. Is it possible for a failing disk to manifest itself in one partition before the others? Or is there some other possibility that I should examine.

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Run a complete hard drive test in DOS...Hirens cd etc...

All the best Brett

 

[CBMuir]

Thanks for the reply. I have tried many different things, including letting the Windows startup chkdsk run for a day. Seems like the drive is fried. It just kept reporting bad sectors. I will have to reload all my CDs I guess. Pretty much done playing with it. At least I got the most important things off of the other partitions.

 

[CBMuir]

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[Dark Lord of Tech]

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