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Hi everyone, got a bit of a problem.

Last night i was cleaning some uneeded stuff off my computer, about 5 gigs worth.

After deleting the 5 gigs didnt free up, I emptied my recycle bin and everything. So I tried to perform an Error check.

The Error check always gets up to Phase 5 and then will freeze. The computer dosent lock up, just the Disk Checking program.

The Hardrive is a 160 gig made by Segate.

I have another hardrive in the machine. My 60 gig master. I tried error checking the 60 gig too, and i get the same problem

please help me
-seraph

Are you referring to chkdsk?
brad

yeah, sorry i shoulda specified.

at least im pretty sure its chkdisk, i right click the hardrive in explorer, go to properties, click the tool tab, click the errorchecking button, select both options there, and then start.

-seraph

Do you have Norton Utilities?

no i dont, should i go get it? do you think it would help the problem???

Have you rebooted? Does chkdsk run on the reboot?
brad

i did reboot, and once it booted into that blue screen chkdisk before windows, it did the same thing, froze on Phase 5.

Maybe its not freezing up, but i wait a good 20-30 minutes, and there is no progress.

thanks
-seraph

Have you tried running it in safe mode?

There are a couple of things you can do to clean up the disk that might help:

1. Run Disk Cleanup (Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Cleanup).

2. Download Diskeeper () and do a defrag.

I think it is also better to run ScanDisk than chkdsk.

Hedda Lora

thanks everyone, im gonna try all the things you said, and ill let you know if anything works

-seraph