What are the different ways to run chkdsk like for example running it at boot up, running from command prompt, running from windows 8 trouble shooting settings etc?
What is the best option/parameter to use with chkdsk in windows 8?
I did a system restore and it failed but system restore advised me to run chkdsk then do the system restore again so i like to know which is the best parameters to use with chkdsk in windows 8?
Whats different in windows 8 version of chkdsk compared to windows 7?
It is better to run chkdsk with computer booting instead from being in Windows itself. Like this , you can be sure that there are no system locked files being in use.
chkdsk had many parameters , see this :
http://technet.microsoft.com/e.....30714.aspx
I think the best way is the way Windows thinks is best.
On W8, on my desktop I've placed COMPUTER icon. When I open it, I see all the drives and devices. What I'll do is open the properties for each drive occasionally, and under Tools is CHECK. Windows will determine IF it can be done now or must be done during the boot process (C: always is due to open system files).
One thing I always do is if I should suffer a BSOD or complete loss of power (have a UPS so this would rarely happen), I run CHKDSK on all drives as well.
Can be done using the COMMAND line as well, and if the disk is 'busy', you can elect to have it run during the boot process as well.
Irv S.
Ran a chkdsk /r on two different (not the same brand, not the same specs) test laptop yesterday and both were stuck at 27%.
I did a few search here and there to find that many people are experiencing that and that it's 'normal' and the 'solution' was to simply wait, sometimes as long as 2-3-4 hours.
So I did wait and one of them finished after 1h15 and the other took about 2.5 hours.
Both of them nearly new, no hardware issue.
There is no such thing as repairs with Hard Drives. There is only recovery of information from corrupt blocks and reallocation to blocks that are set aside just for that. Every hard drive has spare blocks for reassignment however they are limited. These tools are all the same in that they just remap those bad blocks to use the spares. You can try tools from the drives manufacturer (Seagate/Maxtor, Western Digital, Hitachi/Toshiba). If you need something for Recovery I'd say SpinRite. May not be the fastest, but it has different levels of checks. The reason it can take an extremely long time (like the entire weekend) is because it will attempt to get the information from bad areas many many times. I'd suggest going through the FAQ section if you consider.
The free version of this, will scan and repair,
http://www.partitionwizard.com.....nager.html
Edit. You may need version 4,
http://partition-wizard.en.softonic.com/
