Nov 16, 2011 #1 X XTF Gawd Joined Oct 11, 2011 Messages 591 II'm running chkdsk to scan for bad sectors and it's using 7 gb of memory. Is this normal? Chkdsk also requires a drive to be mounted. Is there a better way to scan for bad sectors?
II'm running chkdsk to scan for bad sectors and it's using 7 gb of memory. Is this normal? Chkdsk also requires a drive to be mounted. Is there a better way to scan for bad sectors?
Nov 16, 2011 #2 M mwroobel Supreme [H]ardness Joined Jul 24, 2008 Messages 5,530 Something is very wrong there. OS Version, patch level, boot volume, volume being checked?
Nov 16, 2011 #3 F Forceman [H]F Junkie Joined Aug 7, 2005 Messages 9,243 I think Microsoft said it was by design, to speed up checking. You can google "chkdsk high ram usage" and find a bunch of articles about it.
I think Microsoft said it was by design, to speed up checking. You can google "chkdsk high ram usage" and find a bunch of articles about it.
Nov 17, 2011 #4 X XTF Gawd Joined Oct 11, 2011 Messages 591 mwroobel said: Something is very wrong there. OS Version, patch level, boot volume, volume being checked? Click to expand... Windows 7 x64, up-to-date, volume being checked isn't the boot volume.
mwroobel said: Something is very wrong there. OS Version, patch level, boot volume, volume being checked? Click to expand... Windows 7 x64, up-to-date, volume being checked isn't the boot volume.
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