>> If there are problems with your disk structure, chkdsk sole purpose in
>> life
>> is to fix them--let it do its job to completion. By interrupting it
>> (repeatedly), you may very well be compounding the problem.
>>
>> Realistically, after you've stopped it, what did you intend to do next
>> anyway? At that point you're not in any better state than before.
>
> I've heard too many stories of chkdsk gone wild, overwriting whole disks,
> and I believe that's exactly what it was on its way to do. Anyway, I think
> the install was melting down. I did a low level format and reinstall
> today.

Still--what were your alternatives? Continue using a disk with a bad file
allocation table?