I started CHKDSK 3 days ago and it just creeps along. It is not hung because the percentage complete changes, albeit very slow. The computer is a laptop, internal drive, Windows 7. CHKDSK completed stages 1 through 4 in about an hour but stage 5 (free space) is very slow. It is running at a rate of about 600 clusters per minute. With about 32 million clusters remaining, it will take another 35 days to finish. CHKDSK found only one file with bad clusters during stage 4, and naturally it is the file that prompted me to run CHKDSK as I suspected file damage. Any idea why stage 5 is taking so long? I have never seen this before. If I stop the process, will CHKDSK start over again when I reboot?
Thanks!
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