Scandisk freezes windows 7

Is this known to be a drive thing or a mobo incompatability thing? The performance was excellent for about a week. Now Its hesitating constantly. Simple tasks like switching between programs, making windows larger…etc, besides loading programs, will internitantly seem to stall before accomplishing the task. I even when back to a back-up from last week before the issue was clearly noticable and the issue is the same.

So I believe software has been ruled out. I am not seeing errors in the task manager console …etc, that point me to any other althernative then to suspect an issue with the new hard drive.

I noticed you have posted firmware updates, but they are not mac installable. Is there a way to work around this? Thank you. Seems to be an nVidia issue. Same problem for me with latest firmware updated to try to solve the freezing problem on my Sandisk Extreme GB. One last point: the boot time is slower 30s with my Sandisk Extreme compared to the OCZ Vertex 25s with more installed programs older win7 installation! After, and during, a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit I had a number of freezes where I needed to use the big red button to close the system.

I have also had an interesting problem with the instalation of one of the drivers, which I will raise as a separate post. It worked with no problems since the SSD had firmware R installed. I hope that someone could tell me if there is a way to downgrade the SSD firmware to the previous R Sandisk GB with latest firmware Problems started a few weeks after installing it and have been occuring ever since.

HGST Support. However, when I skip the check disk the computer seems to work fine but the damage is still there and the computer won't let me run restore. Thank you Jose. This thread is locked.

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Jessen P. Hi elpepin, For now I would want you to run the Check disk in Safe mode and let us know if it completes without issues.

Access the link below to boot the computer in Safe Mode. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Jessen P's post on January 14, CHKDSK stuck issue often arises when the hard drive file system getting corrupted or when there are bad sectors and fragment files on the disk.

If you also have any of these problems, you can find the methods here. Chkdsk check can take a couple of hours depending on the size of your drive and the number of corrupted files. The chkdsk process usually takes 5 hours for 1TB drive.

If there are bad sectors on the hard drive, it may need more time. How to stop chkdsk Windows 10? There are several ways to stop a chkdsk scan. Usually, chkdsk starts automatically while booting Windows, and there's a short time frame that allows you to press any key and skip the scan.

But once it starts, you can't stop the chkdsk process until it completes. Stopping the computer during the check might lead to file system corruption. The time chkdsk takes depending on the size of the selected partition.

The bigger the capacity, the longer it takes. If there are too many sectors and corrupted files that need to be fixed on the HDD or external hard drive, it can take even more time. You can stop chkdsk at stage 4. In the fourth stage, the chkdsk tool only reads data from the disk. It writes to the disk only when a bad sector is found.

It should be safe to stop it at this stage. The chances you actually have a bad block, and that chkdsk is repairing it when you stop it are so small. Screen Recorder. Transfer Products. File Management.