Question about scandisk

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Roman King

My computer has two separate (C- and D-) hard disks with WinXP Pro SP2.
While doing scandisk on D-drive (250 GB), I noticed this time that scanning
at Phase 2 takes forever.
So I left the scanning running overnight to complete it.
In the morning, the computer was frozen at the start of Phase 5.

I repeated scandisking on D-drive this morning again.
Scanning at Phase 2 seems forever. I do not see any moving anything for the
first 30 min. So I stopped it.
The D-drive which I store mainly data, songs and graphics is working fine.

Could someone advise me what was the problem and how to fix this problem?

TIA. Craig
 
The drive could be failing, download and run the diag software from the hard
drive mfg's website, that should give you a definite answer.

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First run disk clean up on both hds,restart pc,install xp cd,boot to xp
xd,press
r for recovert,select 1 for C: Press enter key for password,type:CHKDSK D:
/p
Press enter,press up arrow key,repeat 2X,or type:CHKDSK D: /R Type:EXIT
when thru,let xp start up.
 
What I did was to reformat the D-drive (250 GB) and copied a few folders
(total 4 GB) onto it.
Then, I ran scan disk (i.e., check disk). What I see is the scanning from
phase 1 to 4 were very quick.
But scanning at phase 5 now works but it is very slow. I have no clues on
what does phase 5 scanning does.
Do you think that D-drive is failing? TIA. Roman
 
I can't say, because you have yet to follow my original advise, do what I
suggested, post back the results, and I'll tell you if it's failing or not.

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Sorry but I forgot to mention it.
Program from Western Digital analyzed all of my disks are HEALTHY.
But scanning speed at Phase 5 is too slow. I am wondering whether there is
a problem with D-drive or not.
Roman
 
If the WD diagnostic says the drive is ok, it likely is, although I have had
the issue once or twice where it was in fact bad when the mfg diag software
said it was not.

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