hi, sorry if this question does not belong here. i've just run a recovery console on my server 2003. after the recovery finished my system restarted. then when it get to the windows server 2003 logo it keeps there. it looks like its taking to much time to start. the gray bar below moves very slow. is the machine busy with something that takes long or my machine is not restarting? can someone help me with this?

I think that the recovery was not well performed. Try to recover it another time and check if the problem is persisting. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Best regards.

what command do i have to use to scan the whole drive for error?

Hi, From the recovery console, you usually do a chkdsk /r to scan the drives and the file systems for potential problems. I'm not 100% sure if you can use this in the recovery console (chkdsk /r has always worked for me), but you can try running sfc /scannow to verify the protected OS files. If this cannot run from the recovery console, then you might try running it if the system boots. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747/en-us . -- Mike Burr

ok, thnx