Hi there ! Following a manual reboot of our Win NT4 Server, CHKDSK.exe was automatically launched to correct different file problems. Following the list of all treated files, this message appeared: ndex verification completed. CHKDSK detected and fixed minor inconsistencies on the drive. CHKDSK is recovering lost files. recovering orphaned file (...) into directory file (...)" After the sixth file to be recovered, the application seems to be idle (during 2 hours). What's the "less worst" thing to do ? - wait another 2 and 2 and 2 hours? - manually RESET the computer? - type a magical command? Many thanks in advance for any hint ! Best regards

Hit the reset. Chkdsk is hung. I sure hope you have a backup because what you describe does not sound good. I would suggest coming up in vga mode [safe mode] if you can. Run chkdsk from a command prompt if you can. I suspect you will see a bunch of *.chk files and perhaps dir001...02..03 folders also. This is usually a result of both software and hardware misbehaving. In the future try doing a control/alt/delete and see if you can shutdown from task manager.

Final result: after 2 reboots, CHKDSK was always idle during recovering, but effectively rebuilded the indexes sucessfully. At the 3rd reboot, I aborted CHKDSK, and everything was OK ! It seems that no data was lost on the different disks. Ooops, Murphy was asleep...