There are several ways that you can run Chkdsk on a volume. You must be logged on with an account that is a member of the local Administrators group.
In Windows NT 4.0, Chkdsk does a folder-by-folder check of indexes. If Chkdsk encounters a folder with a large number of files, the Chkdsk progress indicator may change very slowly. Also, if Chkdsk encounters bad sectors, the progress indicator changes very slowly because I/O operations that touch bad sectors are typically retried multiple times with a delay between each retry. When the progress indicator moves that slowly, a common mistake that users make is to assume that the computer has stopped responding (is “hung”) and then to restart the server. The status reporting in Windows 2000 has been improved so that it correctly reports the progress. To validate whether Chkdsk is still to performing actions, you can check disk activity. Some of the tasks that Chkdsk performs can be CPU intensive, so even moderate-to-light disk activity is a sign that Chkdsk is still making progress.
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