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My laptop crashed last night. Not sure why but it got really hot??? Everytime i boot it up it tries to run chkdsk but freezes at 80000 checked out of 164000 with only 4% done. I can't work out how to get it to do it properly all the way through or should i just turn it off?
Name: aegis1 Date: August 8, 2009 at 11:33:35 Pacific
Reply:
Chkdsk is not very good at handling hard drives that aren't working 100%. Try downloading and running a diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturer's web site.
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