I have had success in only recovering 1 type at the time, when trying to scan for everything failed! I was able to get an idea where it was hanging up on. If /R was specified, it actually already did this stage once for the metadata and file data sectors in earlier stages. In this stage, CHKDSK tries to read every sector on the disk. Also, instead of searching for all content types, try doing it a few types at the time.įor example, try searching pics, then docs, then vids, to get an idea what it is locking up on. This stage occurs only if the /R command was used (or the box was checked from the GUI). Or select another drive letter if it isn't C:Īfter you run this, at least we can eliminate the bad sector issue. Go to start, run, & paste in chkdsk C:/r then hit enter. Run MS checkdisk to repair errors & bad sectors. This can happen if you have bad sectors on a harddisk. I really need to get whatever I deleted back, but nothing has worked. I think a deleted log file may be what is keeping me from opening any Microsoft Office programs without being prompted for an installation. It will say 0 seconds are left, but then after some minutes go by, this will turn to a 1 and so on. Anyway, no matter what I do, even if I restart my PC before running it, it always stops at 99% at the first stage. It found over 40,000 deleted files-not sure if that's normal or what. Restricting the formats recognized to just a few common ones and misidentifying some formats fom their extensions doesnt always work. WS extension, and my disk includes backups of old Wordstar files. The program also needs to distinguish between a Microsim. It also needs to recognize many more file types unambiguously. What it needs is a progress file that can be logged on a different disk and from which it can continue scanning where it left off, also it needs to be crash proof. As the computer is slower, it takes almost 24 hours to find just over 690,000 files, and it never gets to stage 2, whatever that is. Tried restarting the scan but it went back to square 1 and started over. to go, it crashed and the files list was empty. After it reached 98% on scan #1 with 25 min.

Chkdsk stalls at stage 4