Re: Can't boot. Trying recovery console. How long to 'examine disk'?
- From: Malke <malke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:18:19 -0700
Bill Cook wrote:
Yesterday, my system blue-screened. I'm trying to at least see if I can
run
chkdsk or look at directories by running the recovery console. (Already
tried safe mode and other boot possibilities).
It's been displaying 'Examining 238473 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on
atapi...' for more than 12 hours now. I don't see the drive light
flashing. I know that the drive is pretty big, but when do I give up and
try something
else? ...and what else do I try??
You give up now. I certainly would have done so hours ago. Without knowing
what the blue screen said (Stop Error) I can only guess that your hard
drive (or some other hardware component) is failing.
You know your own skills best to decide whether you do hardware
troubleshooting yourself or take the machine to a competent local
professional (not a BigComputerStore type of place).
Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
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