How long to run

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:54 pm

Does running chkdsk /r take long to run? Any best guesses as to how long would be greatly appreciated.

thx

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:02 pm

I've seen it clear in under 5 minutes......
and I've seen it take several days on a bad disk....sometimes taking several times to get a disk back in shape.
Depends on the health/condition of the disk (as to performance..as we know older drives slow down as time goes on)...how much data on it, how much corruption on it, lots of variables.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:16 pm

Why are you needing to run it to begin with?

cvoixjames · Post by **cvoixjames** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:17 pm

Re this post I ran CHKDSK and it took an hour. Then it froze my pc on reboot. Does not like CCleaner and breaks it. worthless MS app

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:00 pm

cvoixjames wrote:Re this post I ran CHKDSK and it took an hour. Then it froze my pc on reboot. Does not like CCleaner and breaks it. worthless MS app

Troll post much?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:35 pm

RaisinCain wrote:Troll post much?

Ehh, legit post IMO, though I disagree it's a worthless application.
To second what YESC said, I've seen it run through really quickly and really slowly.

cvoixjames · Post by **cvoixjames** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:37 pm

RaisinCain wrote:Troll post much?

Well I uninstalled CCleaner. This time I ran CHKDSK.EXE/F (fix) from the C:\ command prompt window. Took about one minute. I just don't know what this app accomplishes, and the results flash before your eyes and the system restarts. This time clean restart. Cool. But it still seems sorta a worthless app but that is just MY OWN opinion.

I do not troll--James

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:18 pm

Like everyone else, I have had it run in a few mins to days on a horribly jacked up disk. Defiantly not a useless app. In recover console or vista/win 7 server 08 variants in the console mode. recovered a few BSOD just using /r also give me a good idea if the drive need to be looked at further to figure replacement or serviceability using mhdd

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:20 pm

24giovanni wrote:Does running chkdsk /r take long to run? Any best guesses as to how long would be greatly appreciated.

thx

I feel the biggest question here is why are you running it? Experiencing disk issues? File corruption?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:01 pm

What app are people calling worthless?
IMO, CCleaner sorta has its place.
But chkdsk....heck we employ that utility all_the_time...and I call it FAR from worthless. We use it various computers from laptops to workstations to servers nearly every day...frequently accomplishing what we ask of it.

cvoixjames · Post by **cvoixjames** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:40 pm

morbidpete wrote:I feel the biggest question here is why are you running it? Experiencing disk issues? File corruption?

Yes and thanks for the valid question in my mind! I never ran the dang thing till this thread! No issues, so I'm not gonna run it anymore!

--James

YOSC if it works for you great! Go with it

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:14 pm

cvoixjames wrote:
YOSC if it works for you great! Go with it

I have to go with it..part of my job...I'm the IT admin for a lot of small business networks around the country and even down in South America.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:02 pm

As I stated before. Why are you running CHKDSK? Suspected issues with your HDD (why is CCleaner even being brought into the conversation)?

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:48 pm

Guys, Chill out. It was just a simple question. That is all. thx

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:25 pm

Soooo, Have a small laptop HDD IDE type, coming up on 2 days, Need to get as much data off this as possible, it hanging out in a freezer with a usb adapter, only way I can get it working at all, I don't have high hopes for this drive and I warned him it will take a miracle to get anything off of it.

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CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  31652344 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
13 percent complete. (17672 of 115872 files processed)
Windows replaced bad clusters in file 17744
of name \SYSTEM~1\_RESTO~1\RP1661\A0113534.rbf.
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TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:31 am

cvoixjames wrote:Well I uninstalled CCleaner. This time I ran CHKDSK.EXE/F (fix) from the C:\ command prompt window. Took about one minute. I just don't know what this app accomplishes, and the results flash before your eyes and the system restarts. This time clean restart. Cool. But it still seems sorta a worthless app but that is just MY OWN opinion.

One should know and understand what a program does prior to using it. And then don't use a program like chkdsk unless it's necessary.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... x?mfr=true

Chkdsk (Chkdsk.exe) is a command-line tool that checks volumes on your hard disk drive for problems. The tool then tries to repair any problems that it finds. For example, Chkdsk can repair problems related to bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files, and directory errors. To use Chkdsk, you must log on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.