moochieh

Ok thanks for the help. I guess I'll let it run (now up to around 400,000). But what if it is still running after a couple more days? How many files could possibly be "orphaned"?

sadly no I don't have a backup. The computer still would function if I restarted it but I would need to skip the chkdsk blue screen every time. I would do that except i think there is something wrong with it so I am trying to let it run.

No there isn't any external drive, in fact it is a laptop. Any idea on how many files it would go up to? (meaning the number of the files, it was up to 350,000 a while ago.)

I haven't gotten one of those errors and I know that I can skip it, but is it best to let it go untouched for days or to just cancel it every time i boot up and ignore it?

For a while my computer has prompted me to run CHKDSK every time I turn it on. It comes to a blue screen and says press a button to cancel or wait 10 seconds to perform it. I tried to let it run but it takes an extremly long amount of time to get through. I am typing from another computer because it still hasn't finished and it has been going for days. It has been up to "Recovering orphaned files" for the whole time. Every time I check back it has made a lot of progress because the number of the file is up, but it seems like it will never end (up to around file 350,000 right now). I really don't want to leave my computer on for weeks so can someone please help me with this problem. Thanks a lot.