Long story short, on a WHS system, whenever I run chkdsk /r against several 2TB disks of various make, it marks about half the drive space as bad sectors. If I run chkdsk without /r FIRST, then it's ...

I've attempted to run a chkdsk /r on the recovery console on about 4 different systems, (XP and 2000) and it hangs at 52%. The longest I've waited was 45 minutes. Seen this on OEM Dell's and on a ...

This message typically appears when you run chkdsk /f /r. If you see this message, if might be a good idea to back up your data to an external hard disk right away, as your hard disk could be failing.