Re: Check disk is a complete joke.

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On Jul 6, 7:33 pm, "Lord Turkey Cough" <spamd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Lord Turkey Cough" <spamd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:O0cck.231310$aE7.189502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Been stuck on 'phase two' for about an hour or more,
no info whatsoever.

If that what I paid £70+ for?

I guess you can say that about most of microsofts stuff though.
It's either dead slow or doesn't work at all.

Dr Watson for example, who kills his patients.

Well after about over 2 hours it finall got to the end of stage 2 and said
"windows was unable to complete the task"  - what a load of wank.



you could take that as a cause for suspicion of detection of a problem
with your hard drive.

troubleshoot to determine if this is likely the case. (other hard
drives, that machine, other machines).

Not that this will help you much here, but
I would always do chkdsk /r (it implies /f ). If you don't do /r or /
f then it is just reading and not writing anything and errors are
left. But it might report them.
I have had good luck with chkdsk before. Locating precisely what
files were problematic. I copied good ones from another machine - and
warned the users that I suspected a hard drive problem and they should
change their hard drive before more system (or personal) files get
corrupted. (they weren't EXEs corrupted, it didn't seem malicious).

Check the chkdsk log. notice that chkdsk /? mentions a log. Apparently
it is in event viewer..applications..winlogon
So check that.


I am not sure but you may need to set some things on on, ctrl
panel..system.."startup and recovery" settings,
"write an event to the system log" <-- should be checked anyway
"write debugging information" <-- I have set to small memory dump. May
be useful.
(I also uncheck automatic restart, though that is not so relevant to
your problem)
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