Chkdisk doesn't finish on a good hard drive

[johnprtl]

Hi,
I have a perplexing problem with my Thinkpad X61 with Vista Ultimate.
It has a 160 gig sata Hitatchi hd. If I try to run chkdsk as a normal maintenance task, it runs until it gets to 85% on the final stage, checking freespace. It always stops at the same place. Yet, if I put the drive in a hd enclosure and run chkdsk on it from my XP machine, it runs fine and finds no errors.
IBM sent me a replacement hard drive which I set up with backups from the first drive. It appears that I have cloned the problem, because both drives act exactly the same.
Is there some file that chkdsk uses that has been corrupted? I don't have a Vista installation cd, so I have to get whatever I need from another source.
Any advice is much appreciated.
John

[rrader]

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[LordCR]

John,

I had, apparently, the same thing happen on my laptop. Checkdisk seems slower in Vista than in XP. Much slower. I start check disk and it runs at normal XP speed to about at 50%, then it seems to just sit there and not advance. For a few times, I thought it was just freezing, so I'd power off the laptop and skip the check. This upset me and I wanted to fix it, so one day I left it alone for 10 or 15 minutes and came back and noticed it had incremented some but it was advancing very very slowly. So now I run it overnight. I don't know what's up with this. But that's how I got around this problem. You may have the same problem I did and just not be aware of it. Otherwise your problem appears to be the same as mine because of the symptoms, but is actually different.

-Chad