chkdsk /r takes forever!

[Disillusion]

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop that I'm working on here.

First of all, it was getting a "Disk unreadable error" or whatever and wouldn't boot. So, I tried to repair the OS, but the filesystem was unrecognizable. I decided to run chkdsk. I ran chkdsk /p and it said something about errors being detected and am now running chkdsk /r and it was at 50% for like 30 minutes and it's been at 51% for the past 30 minutes. HDD led lights up every once in awhile. Is this normal?

 

[Disillusion]

Ok well I tried a chkdsk /p /r. I got to about 52% and then it said:

The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems.

Is this hard drive toast?

 

[TheMajor]

Did you remove the partitions/format?

 

[Disillusion]

Did you remove the partitions/format?

I didn't remove any partitions or anything. It has like the 3 default partitions that Dells come with. One is for the OS, I think one is for Media Direct, and I'm not sure what the other one is for. The other two are either FAT or FAT32 I think.

 

[killians45]

do fdisk and see what fdisk sees the partition as. Don't delete them or anything, just see what it sees it as. I have the feeling it is seeing it as unknown type. Did you install anything like linux duel boot or maybe something like goback (backup utilities).

 

[Disillusion]

do fdisk and see what fdisk sees the partition as. Don't delete them or anything, just see what it sees it as. I have the feeling it is seeing it as unknown type. Did you install anything like linux duel boot or maybe something like goback (backup utilities).

At first, it was showing the OS filesystem as unknown until I ran chkdsk in the recovery console. Now it shows as NTFS, but still isn't booting. Nothing has ever been tampered with on this hard drive. All original OS straight from Dell.

The kid does have a fair share of porn and **** like that, so I wonder if he got a virus. I was able to still see all the documents and stuff when I booted it with Knoppix.