Background: This morning I turned on my computer only to find that my F: drive was supposedly not formatted, with windows prompting me to format it (and yes it did have files saved on and was formatted with NTFS prior to this), so I tried restoring an C: disk image and that appeared to have solved the problem
Now, I need to force the system to run a CHKDSK on startup in order to try and clean the disk as it appears to be damaged. Every time I try and access anything from the F: drive the system either locks up or BSODs, yet refuses to schedule a CHKDSK on startup and fix the problem. I've tried both running a disk check through the windows disk properties, system locks up before it can finish. I've tried running a disk check through the cmd.exe dos command line and it locks up at 18%, and I've tried both methods via safe mode, and of course the system locks up.
So I need a method that will force a CHKDSK on startup so that I can hopefully try and temporarily repair the drive and get the files I want off of it before it dies completely, before I try more complicated restoral methods. The drive is not dead, I can still see all of the files on the drive, it just seems to be badly damaged
Now, I need to force the system to run a CHKDSK on startup in order to try and clean the disk as it appears to be damaged. Every time I try and access anything from the F: drive the system either locks up or BSODs, yet refuses to schedule a CHKDSK on startup and fix the problem. I've tried both running a disk check through the windows disk properties, system locks up before it can finish. I've tried running a disk check through the cmd.exe dos command line and it locks up at 18%, and I've tried both methods via safe mode, and of course the system locks up.
So I need a method that will force a CHKDSK on startup so that I can hopefully try and temporarily repair the drive and get the files I want off of it before it dies completely, before I try more complicated restoral methods. The drive is not dead, I can still see all of the files on the drive, it just seems to be badly damaged