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 ...

As the title says. I was gonna do a routine chkdsk /r before imaging my C: and was greeted by this message upon rebooting. I then went to the RC and tried to run chkdsk /r from there and all was fine ...

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.