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David Arnstein wrote:

> Then chkdsk will prompt me to do a boot time analysis. I respond "Y" for
> yes. Then chkdsk hangs forever.

This is the expected behavior when you run a native program attached to
a tty.  Please see the archives, this has been discussed extensively.

<http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site%3Acygwin.com+inurl%3Aml+inurl%3Acygwin+pty+native>

Brian

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