Help with BSOD

[spider69]

Over the past day or two Ive been trying to do some cleaning up on my laptop. I get a BSOD when I run Defrag. Power down, calm down, try again. Once again I get a BSOD. Calm down. Happens several times and I havent changed/added done anything new recently. Make copies of all files and run the recovery disk and do a entire reinstall. Time for it anyway. Get everything running and do a Defrag - no problems. Great. Now just to confirm that all is well, do a scan disk. System reboots and runs through the entire sequence except it hangs at 58% of stage 5. Leave it for 3 hours and it doesnt move an inch. Hard reboot, calm down. Starts up and runs directly into scandisk and hangs at 58% again.

2 questions: How do I fool the PC into skipping that scan disk?
Is there a potential problem with my hardware that is causing these problems?

 

[Grep]

Hard drive or motherboard. I would say reformat, hopefully XP cleans the badblocks and away you go. But from the sound of it, its HDD.

 

[Earther]

Sounds like HDD. When you reformat in XP setup, remember to use normal format, not the quick one. If that does not work replace HDD.

 

[spider69]

I was suspecting that "good" news.
Is there a way to skip the full CHKDSK that I have scheduled?
Thanks

 

[Grep]

No point of "skipping" the chkdsk and somehow installing XP only to have it BSOD later because of a faulty HDD.

 

[Kraai2009]

Just check your temperature as well. It may be that your pc is overheating due to a fan not working properly, or dust, or a faulty heatsink, and all this can cause it to "hang" as well.

 

[kronoSX]

Hard drive error are common with this type of bsod.there is a file you can take out from windows system folder to stop this process or you could press the space bar when booting starts.

 

[Conradl]

Sounds like your disk is buggered. Try downloading the disk manufacturers diagnostic software and see if it finds any errors.

 

[spider69]

Thanks for the replies so far. I am a relative newbie when it comes to HDDs on laptops. What s what? How much and and specifics I should look out for?

 

[Odly]

It is most likely a HDD error if you hold own F8 and get into safe mode you should be able to get into the scheduler and remove CHKDSK from there but you should be able to skip it dueing normal boot just hit esc a few once you passed the boot screen?