Yes, as always there IS a problem with windows.  As sure as Kanye West is a douche.

Unfortunately this is one of those "oh crap, this isn't good, this is serious" type of problem.

What you are seeing on the left is memory usage going up and up and up as the chkdsk is being used.  When I went to command prompt and ran the program chkdsk on one of my NTFS formatted drives, memory usage (blue line) gradually went up and fairly quickly until it reached maximum available and used up all my available RAM.  Also as you can see an alert shows up giving me choice to close the program.  And as soon as I close the program the blue line (memory usage) drops significantly back to where it started.

When a  program uses up significant amount of memory like this and often not release when program closes is called memory leak.  It's basically windows having the shitz.  And it hurts cause last night's dinner had too much Kimchi or maybe Jalapenos.  *OW it burns it burns~~~~*

This isn't an app just for IT people.  This is a very handy and important program that is part of Microsoft Windows and is vital to health of your drive data.  when drives get corrupted, you need to fix it.  How?  with Chkdsk.  But now the prob is the Chkdsk.  If you can't run Chkdsk, then you can't do a repair.

References:  According to info in this page http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/a3cd974b-4758-44bb-b1c0-289ef813b2e6 the prob is for NTFS formatted drives.  But most drives these days will be formatted NTFS.