My external 4TB Western Digital Harddrive dropped from my desk onto the hard corded carpet floor.
By my knowledge, the harddrive was not 'in use' when it fell off the desk, but it was plugged into power & USB. The system had been idle for some time.
The harddrive is still operational, but sadly I've noticed it has started making a clicking noise randomly. Just one or two clicks every once in a while which I have only noticed happening during the system start up & during the scan I am currently running.
Now, I know my way around harddrives. So I am fully aware that, after something so traumatic happening to the drive, I can no longer rely on the drive to store data.
I am running a disk check with both:
Automatically fix file system errors &
The Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
checked off. I am aware this process can take a very long time. The scan has been running for a good 4 or 5 hours. I'm estimating that the bar is about 1/10th done & it has processed about 3,000 files. There has been no visible change in the size of the bar since it started processing files, but the number of files is slowly going up. This process is taking up over 6.5 GBs of my 8 GBs of RAM.
Here are my questions:
Is this RAM consumption normal?
Is 3,000 files processed in a span of 4 hours normal?
Can I cancel this scan without damaging the harddrive?
(If its going to take a very long time I'd rather not run it on my main computer. I'd like to cancel and plug it into my spare computer. That way I won't care if it takes a week to complete)
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Running Windows 7 64bit
By my knowledge, the harddrive was not 'in use' when it fell off the desk, but it was plugged into power & USB. The system had been idle for some time.
The harddrive is still operational, but sadly I've noticed it has started making a clicking noise randomly. Just one or two clicks every once in a while which I have only noticed happening during the system start up & during the scan I am currently running.
Now, I know my way around harddrives. So I am fully aware that, after something so traumatic happening to the drive, I can no longer rely on the drive to store data.
I am running a disk check with both:
Automatically fix file system errors &
The Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
checked off. I am aware this process can take a very long time. The scan has been running for a good 4 or 5 hours. I'm estimating that the bar is about 1/10th done & it has processed about 3,000 files. There has been no visible change in the size of the bar since it started processing files, but the number of files is slowly going up. This process is taking up over 6.5 GBs of my 8 GBs of RAM.
Here are my questions:
Is this RAM consumption normal?
Is 3,000 files processed in a span of 4 hours normal?
Can I cancel this scan without damaging the harddrive?
(If its going to take a very long time I'd rather not run it on my main computer. I'd like to cancel and plug it into my spare computer. That way I won't care if it takes a week to complete)
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Running Windows 7 64bit
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