CHKDSK in Windows 10

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How to safely execute a CHKDSK,  Screens resulting from research are black, can’t continue

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?Could you accidentally have set the font color in Command Prompt to black while specifying a black background??

Zig

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Good catch!, I thought Windows 10 would complain while trying to set both colors to black with the Properties dialog.

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From an Administrator Command Prompt (Assuming drive C:)

“CHKDSK C:” (This will perform a read only check to let you know if a repair is needed)

If a repair is needed:

“CHKDSK C: /F”

This should result in a prompt to schedule the checkdisk with repair on reboot.
Then reboot your computer and the checkdisk should take off on its own.

If it doesn’t, you’ll want to look into physical disk health.

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I am trying to find a way to repair Checkdisk itself.

In an admin cmd running the command chkdsk c: /f  ((or with /f /r /x)) and rebooting, the pc runs checkdisk BUT stops at the final stage where the announcement is: finnished checking and repairing c:  ….

After this the pc should restart itself. But it doesn’t.  Is there a way to repair this?

I hesitate to set the “dirty-bit” because I don’t know where that leads to.

Thanks for your thoughts,  Fred

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If you have fast boot enabled, try disabling it. See How to disable Windows 10 fast startup (and why you’d want to) | Windows Central for instructions.

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Fred

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Fastboot is always disabled by me, in the very beginning of a new install.

Thank you anyway

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Might be best to do a WMIC disk drive get status in that CMD just in case.. (reply should be OK.. a very basic verdict on the drive) or even do a disk media scan with manufacturer diagnostics (sometimes drive firmware doesn’t handle requests on problem media areas as gracefully as it should and just stops responding, causing the machine to stall (even if your drive is a SSD). Of course you might need newer firmware..)

Check you don’t have 20H2, which had chkdsk issues with the /f switch before going too far. This also indicates chkdsk /f works from recovery console there so that’s an alternative route.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/december-8-2020-kb4592438-os-builds-19041-685-and-19042-685-a548ef85-dec5-e58e-0c33-206784bfcf91

Also, might be worth checking event logs or even enabling boot logging to see if there is anything happening you didn’t expect. Definitely worth checking Bitlocker is off, or you have that recovery key written down or stored elsewhere before changing or doing anything to the file system.

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Fred

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Thanks Oldguy, homework to do.

Somehow I am afraid to imageing back for many months. Something is damaged.

“Nothing else to do” 😔

 

 

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November 4, 2021 at 1:15 #2399924

Thank you all for thinking with me.
None of the mentioned notions and tricks were “fixing” checkdisk.
Frustrating is that the tech-guys from Windows didn’t respond at all, and even that there was a known “issue” with chkdsk around late July; they forgot to mention that whoever was stuck with the problem had to stay with it, or rebuild their system. What has happened, I reccon a bad patch, and a inmature fix that didn’t come through in some cases.
A real fix was never presented, anyway I didn’t find it. But it’s nice to learn that there are a lot of goodwilling good guys willing to assist, including the Askwoody’s community. Hear hear.

All the suggested tests, even the tests that Linux offers for testing the harddisk…. they only showed that the hardware is clean, and “nothing is wrong”, haha. What part of the registry was mutulated, I don’t have an idea.

So, I re-immaged 7 versions going back in time of the OS, and coming to the date of July17 (this year 😉  ) Windows and chkdsk are working as to be expected, and as far as I can see for now. I have direcly upgraded W10 v.20H2 to v.21H1 and hope at this version to stay as long as possible for a change.

greetings

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