I'm writing this for XP, but it's the same problem with Vista on my dual-boot
PC...

I recently encountered a power surge, which caused my PC to shutdown. I was
running in XP at the time.

I powered back up, and everything seemed fine, so I proceeded to do a CHKDSK
on all my drives. My two backup drives checked out OK, but both my XP & Vista
boot drives get stuck when it comes to verifying the indexes. (Stage 2 sticks
on 0%)

I intially restored a backup image of my XP drive, but this had no effect. I
then booted up the Recovery Console on my XP installation CD, and then ran
the CHKDSK /R command. This initially appeared to do the trick, and was able
to complete a Stage 2 check using XP (although it stopped @ Stage 3).

However, I'm back to where I cannot even start a Stage 2 check using CHKDSK
on either boot drive. Am I resigned to reformatting & reinstalling, or is
there something else I can try?

I don't appear to have any problems running either OS, but in both cases, I
cannot perform a basic CHKDSK on a boot drive.