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- From: swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram N (Dr))
- Subject: Why does CHKDSK D: /F: 3 take 2 hours?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.081307.18336@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:13:07 GMT
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- Periodically, I do a CHKDSK of my HPFS partition (290 MB) from the
- A: drive after booting up using the install diskettes. My IDE drive
- is a MAxtor XT-4380E (330 MB, FDISK shows only 320). The motherboard
- is Mylex 486/25 EISA, 8MB RAM, generic I/O card, WD SVGA card.
-
- After invoking CHKDSK, I see the program reading the HDD and see
- 25 % complete on screen. Thereafter, it is a slooooow crawl, at the
- rate of 10 minutes/ 5%. I should mention that there is 200MB free
- space on the drive. Previously, SCO ODT :-) was on the HDD. I did
- the usual repartitoning and formatting using the OS/2 install program.
- Should I have done a low-level format before I installed?
-
- Generally, OS/2 has been behaving well and the HPFS disk access is
- ok (although of late, it seems to be slower in DOS sessions). My
- SWAPPER file is usually around 5 Meg. And I believe that the
- problem with CHKDSK is recent (I can't say for sure whether it
- has always been this way;probably not).
-
- When I do a FDISK from OS/2 how should the table read? I have
- a boot-manager setup, 30MB FAT C: Drive, the rest HPFS.
- I am particularly interested in knowing the distinction(s) among
- installable, bootable and startable partitions.
-
- Unlike the D drive, CHKDSK zips through the C drive. On the D
- drive, the drive light seems to be on continuously, as CHKDSK moves
- glacially. I should add that it fixes allocation problems before
- the crawl.
-
- Someone, give me a clue.
-
-
- Sriram [the sigless one]
-