Comments on: Windows 7 RTM chkdsk memory issue isn’t a showstopper

By: B.Eisenwolf

B.Eisenwolf — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:16:51 +0000

Found myselfself here searching for something entirely else, but turned out to be a cool read anyway, so I guess sometimes it’s ok that you can’t use a search engine properly.

By: Casper Johnson

Casper Johnson — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:02:42 +0000

Not entirely what I had been trying to find but it was some good reading anyway, guess its a ok that I wasn’t able to search properly or I wouldn’t have found this.

By: karkovazy

karkovazy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:04:35 +0000

Thanks!

By: SmumbCaby

SmumbCaby — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:17:04 +0000

Thanks! Good news

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Windows 7 Delay? Forget About It! — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:08:21 +0000

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By: Geo

Geo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:33:38 +0000

Whoops, guess I just restated the article above. But yeah, just to confirm, Steven Sinofsky did tell me the same thing he told the public.

By: Geo

Geo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:30:50 +0000

I managed to get a hold of Steven Sinofsky on the Windows Engineering Blog. What he told me was that this was by design. He wanted chkdsk /r to be a fast process and said it was normal for a lot of RAM to be used up. He also told me if I had to run it in Windows, it would be best to leave the machine alone. And besides, how many times would you actually do a chkdsk /r on a secondary disk? I certainly hope not every day, if so, then you might need a new hard drive. I have seen my memory usage go up to about 97 percent but I have not gone to the point of BSoDing as some other people have claimed they did.