I have a 1 TB WD external drive that I keep photos and music on. Yesterday I tried to open one of the folders and it said the folder was corrupted.
I used the built-in disk checker in Windows 7 (right-click on drive in computer/click properties/click the tool tab/click check now and select both boxes)
This morning the progress bar was all the way to the end and it said "151763619 free clusters processed" and it's been there all day today. The window doesn't say "Not responding" but it's frozen and clicking anywhere on it does nothing.
Is it safe to just kill the process? For the record, I checked and my files are accessible again but explorer is taking up memory constantly but I don't want to compromise my drive if killing it would corrupt anything else
I used the built-in disk checker in Windows 7 (right-click on drive in computer/click properties/click the tool tab/click check now and select both boxes)
This morning the progress bar was all the way to the end and it said "151763619 free clusters processed" and it's been there all day today. The window doesn't say "Not responding" but it's frozen and clicking anywhere on it does nothing.
Is it safe to just kill the process? For the record, I checked and my files are accessible again but explorer is taking up memory constantly but I don't want to compromise my drive if killing it would corrupt anything else
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