CHKDSK is Verifying Indexes

[laxatives11]

I tried ubuntu, but decided to switch back to Windows. I used the HP Recovery discs and restored to factory settings and installation went smoothly. After it was finally finished and about to boot, it shut off. After several attempts at this, it eventually began checking C: (NTFS). CHKDSK passed the first stage but again, the computer shut off at stage 2, "verifying indexes." f I try to skip CHKDSK, the computer simply shuts off immediately after. Is my harddrive bad? Any help would be appreciated

 

[gomerpile]

disable shut down on errors in bios

 

[cyberjock]

Pardon me for sounding like i'm talking down to yo gomerpile, but..

WTF is disable shutdown on errors in bios?

I've seen the "Press F1 key on error" options and you can also optionally disable the stop on keyboard error. But those have nothing to do with the computer shutting down.

I'm wondering if your CPU is overheating on this one...

 

[gomerpile]

Pardon me for sounding like i'm talking down to yo gomerpile, but..

WTF is disable shutdown on errors in bios?

I've seen the "Press F1 key on error" options and you can also optionally disable the stop on keyboard error. But those have nothing to do with the computer shutting down.

I'm wondering if your CPU is overheating on this one...

Maybe your mother board dont have that feature mine does hault on errors is what most award bios have

Error Checking dialog box (to get to it, right-click the drive's icon in Explorer and choose Properties, Tools, Error-Checking) and clicked 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors', which tells XP to check the drive the next time you boot. After your drive completes the error check, click Start, Run, type cmd, and press <Enter>. Now type chkntfs /x c: (change 'c:' to your drive's letter, if it's different, and don't forget the space before and after the '/x') and press <Enter> again. Your boot-up disk scans will be ancient history.

 

[cyberjock]

Maybe your mother board dont have that feature mine does hault on errors is what most award bios have

Yeah, that's the feature I have too. That's the feature I was talking about previously, but that option doesn't do what you think it does.

That feature means if during the POST test any errors develop, it stops and requires you to press a key. Effectively making you aware of the error vice going to the next page and not ever seeing it. It's smart to have this feature on because if you have a SMART hard disk error, or any of a bunch of other errors, you'd never see them because they'd flash on the screen for only a second.

But, this BIOS option has no bearing whatsoever on anything AFTER the POST tests completes. The fact that he's running CHKDSK and it's turning off means this isn't related to that option.

I hope this all makes sense to anyone reading this because i'm dead tired.

 

[gomerpile]

I know what that feature does. I'm saying what I did because of my own experience with that feature.
I was running a scan of the disk the system stopped, then rebooted trying diffrent things like turning off automatic restart, safe mode, checking the bios for something, not knowing what Halt on erros really was I disabled it.
I was able to finish my scan after that, why when turning off that I was able to finish the scan. I did a search for that feature and read the same thing you said but my experence with the scan and that feature is why I said this.