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I am unable to boot into Windows 8 after restarting during when some mysterious process was using 50% Disk Activity. So, the first thing I'm trying is chkdsk, but it doesn't run at all. It simply says The type of the file system is NTFS. and then it freezes.

If chkdsk does not run, then what does that indicate? Is all my data completely lost? I AM able to use Command Prompt to browse around my directories and use type to read text files, so I assume that at least some documents are salvageable?

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  • Try running chkdsk from a Windows installation disk instead of the Recovery environment on your HDD.
    – user201262
    Commented Sep 15, 2013 at 3:34
  • I tried that already. Both from the hard drive and from the Windows 8 DVD. Same problem for both, unfortunately.
    – Gary
    Commented Sep 15, 2013 at 3:39
  • @Moses No. You either run chkdsk from the recovery console, or from within windows. there isn't a third type of chkdsk. the only difference between whether it's from hdd or from cd, is whether or not you need a restart which you would if it's active.
    – barlop
    Commented Sep 15, 2013 at 12:13
  • maybe a safe move would be to try to make an image of the partition. Second to that, since chkdsk doesn't work, you could see if the hdd manufacturer has a tool.
    – barlop
    Commented Sep 15, 2013 at 12:15

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After running chkdsk a few times, it finally ran. When it ran, it finished after about 30 hours. Turns out the hard drive had a lot of bad sectors, so I recovered them with HDD Regenerator then I used Acronis True Image to clone my internal drive to an external one before I lost everything for good.

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