On Sunday, I found several bad sectors on my E: (4 Gb IDE)alerted in the event viewer (NT Server 4.0, SP6A). I scheduled a chkdsk /r, which I understand runs a surface scan, and rebooted.
I have run this utility before and it usually takes about 10 minutes to complete, so I was alarmed 18 hours later when it hadn't finished.
I (foolishly?) rebooted and this time it has been over 24hours and it still is working (disk activity light is on and steady).
An additional complication - this server has never displayed the progress of the chkdsk, so aside from the disk activity light, I have no idea if it is still functioning, and whether it is 2% or 98% done.
We need to get this server moving ASAP, but I'm out of ideas. HELP!
I have run this utility before and it usually takes about 10 minutes to complete, so I was alarmed 18 hours later when it hadn't finished.
I (foolishly?) rebooted and this time it has been over 24hours and it still is working (disk activity light is on and steady).
An additional complication - this server has never displayed the progress of the chkdsk, so aside from the disk activity light, I have no idea if it is still functioning, and whether it is 2% or 98% done.
We need to get this server moving ASAP, but I'm out of ideas. HELP!
