{"id":1086,"date":"2013-01-28T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fbcs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2013-01-28T23:17:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T23:17:32","slug":"chkdsk-hangs-but-not-from-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/chkdsk-hangs-but-not-from-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"chkdsk hangs &#8212; but not from Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually run <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CHKDSK\" target=\"_blank\">chkdsk<\/a> from a bootable CD such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hirensbootcd.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hiren&#8217;s<\/a>, but today I had a Vista machine with a disk fault, and chkdsk from the CD kept hanging at 1% of phase 4: it got completely stuck, and I had to force the computer to power off.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that the disk must be completely borked, but in fact it did boot into Windows &#8212; but very slowly.\u00a0 And when I set Vista&#8217;s chkdsk to run on restart, it worked perfectly: it just found bad sectors in one file.<\/p>\n<p>So, the moral is: don&#8217;t dismiss the idea of running chkdsk from the faulty disk, even with Vista.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually run chkdsk from a bootable CD such as Hiren&#8217;s, but today I had a Vista machine with a disk fault, and chkdsk from the CD kept hanging at 1% of phase 4: it got completely stuck, and I had to force the computer to power off. I thought that the disk must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,13,55,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}