Windows 10: My Computer is doing a Hard Drive Repair and it say its going to take 60+ hours is it...

my computer is saying that it needs to repair a drive and I started this around 10 30AM. The HDD light is solid and the progress is going very slowly. The screen shows that it going to take over 60 Hrs. should I just pull the plug and restart?

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How to Partiton a Hard Drive in Vista

This is a way to get Vista to see another hard drive that is not associated with the OS. There is some times when your new hdd doesn't seem to want to work well with Vista. But, there is a solution in it.

Open the Computer Management By doing these steps.

• Click on the Start Button
• Click on Control Panel
• Click Administrative Tools
• Double click on Computer Management

You are now in the Navigation panel of the Computer Management.
When in Computer Management, you then have to allow the new drive to be recognized.

• Double click on Storage
• Double click on Disk Management

Now in the middle of your screen there is the layout of the Disk Drives that you have. The drives that are partitioned will show by the drive lettering. The others will just show up as having nothing at all in them. Below that there will be the Disk drives that are installed into the computer. You'll see that the primary one will all ways read as "Disk 0". Then you will have Disk 1 and so on. Under the Disks there will also see your CD-Rom drives.. If there is more then one, it will be labeled the same as Disk drives..

On to the Partitioning of the drive in question.

• Right Click on the drive
• Click to format the drive or Enable Volume. There will be a series of windows that open up. This is Vista's formatting. Just go threw the windows, and make sure everything is the way you want it to happen.
• Once the formatting is done, will take some time depending on the drive size.
• Right click on the drive
• Click on Mark the Partition as Active

After you have done those steps, The drive will be up and running threw Vista.



:Side Notes:
If you are not the Administer to the Os, then you will have to enable it..
You may also want to redo the drive lettering of it all. But, I really don't see a reason to do so. If you do, you have to redo drive paths and so forth.. A lot of work on something so small...

 

Scanning and Repairing Drive Stuck; Hard Drive Corrupted?

Hello,

I have an ASUS laptop (purchased about 3 years ago) and recently upgraded to Windows 10. Everything has been fine until just the other day when I proceeded to log into my computer after it was in sleep mode. I entered my password as normal, but the computer
froze. I had to do a hard shutdown and then turn it back on. Ever since then, the computer has been taking much longer to startup than it used to (around 10 minutes for everything to completely load and be usable). Not only is this a problem, but now my
computer will not go longer than a half hour or so without freezing. The freezing usually occurs when I am trying to close out of a program or open another program. This freezing makes everything inoperable. I cannot press CTL+Alt+Delete, and my only solution
is a hard shutdown.

Just today I noticed that every time I try to start my computer, I am getting the ChkDsk coming up and wanting to scan my hard drive. I did this once, and it appeared to get stuck at 7%. So I did a hard shutdown and rebooted the computer by skipping that
step (I am given 10 seconds to skip that step by pressing any key within the given time frame). After this, I got an error notification through the Windows Notification Centrr that my hard drive had an error, and that I should restart the computer and scan
the hard drive to fix the error. So I did that again and still stuck at 7% after about an hour.

I have seen many posts about the scanning and repairing drive getting stuck, but they all seem to provide different answers. Some say to just wait, others say to reboot with a USB or CD. I don't think I have either of those, and I would actually like to
have my hard drive scanned and repaired if something is wrong with it. But I don't know why it's stuck.

Thank you in advance for your help. This may be a unique situation, but it sounds like my hard drive has been corrupted. The only thing I did out of the ordinary since this happened was delete temporary internet files and cookies, but I don't see how this
would have any affect on the hard drive.

 

Help with external hard drive

Hi Debbra,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I appreciate your interest in windows 10 and also for trying the troubleshooting steps to fix the issue. I understand the inconvenience you faced. I will certainly help you with this.

I would suggest you to plug in hard drive then check in disk management you can see the drive or not.

Follow the steps to check Drive in Disk Management.

• 
  Go to the Control Panel then click on the
  Administrative Tools. .
  
• 
  Under the Administrative Tool Click on Computer Management.
  
• 
  Click on Disk Management and check the External Hard Drive.
  

Also check in BIOS whether External Hard Drive is listed or not.

For help with the BIOS settings, refer to the computer manual or contact the manufacturer.

If it doesn’t work then, I would suggest you to update BIOS for updating BIOS contact Lenovo Support.

Follow the link:

http://support.lenovo.com/in/hi/

Disclaimer :

Modifying BIOS/complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) settings incorrectly can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from booting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the configuring of BIOS/CMOS settings
can be solved. Modifications of the settings are at your own risk.

Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

Thanks.