Scan Disk takes tooo long

Hello all

Here goes, I am running XP pro, my computer had a hiccup So I restarted. While rebooting the computer it decided to do a scan disk, (this normaly takes a couple of minuets) this one took 6 Hours. Oh it said there was a bad file in a temp folder. Everything seems to work fine, so I ran another scan and it took 6 hours. What is going on???????

 

Try doing a disk cleanup (my computer then right-click on the drive, select properties, then disk cleanup) and let it delete everything it suggests.

Then start~run~cmd followed by chkdsk /r and see if it finds/fixes any additional problems. This one with the /r switch will take a while since it does a surface scan and a really exaustive file/folder scan.

Then a disk defrag just to complete the fix up part.

Now try doing chkdsk /f and if it still takes hours for chkdsk to run, then unless you have a really large, really full drive, you may well have a serious hardware problem with the hard drive. Really large is over 200Gb and really full is over 80%.

 

Problem fixed

Thanks for the help Newt. I did the disk cleanup, there was 8.6 gigs of temp stuff in a temp file, once gone the check disk took 1 minute.

Oh I did not have any Photoshop files, even though I do use the program.

thanks again

 

lmorga11 - 8.6Gb may not be a world's record but it's gotta be way up there.

Glad things are working better for you now. If you run the disk cleanup about once a week, it will always run quickly for you and will keep the drive from getting so full of junk.