Hi everyone,
So as the title states I'm having an issue with CHKDSK /r being performed on my external hard drive. So let me explain as best as I can what's going on.
My WD 1TB hard drive has been acting up lately. Haven't been able to open large files without lagging, unable to transfer files to and from my external hard drive, etc. I first ran Disk Management to see if my drive(s) were okay. My laptop's hard drive was in perfect condition and it also stated that my external hard drive was 100% Healthy, it was still it NTSF format (not RAW), so that all seemed okay. SO, after doing some research I took it upon myself to run a chkdsk /r on the external hard drive to see if that could clean it up. The scan was doing just fine but given the fact that there were so many files having to be scanned (465000 files) I decided to just let it run over night while I went to sleep. This morning however, I checked on it and it was at Stage 4, 11%, file number 454146. It's been sitting at that stage/file number all day. I believe what had happened was the external hard drive had eventually locked itself. It generally does this if it is not being used or if the laptop goes to sleep (which it did not btw). So I figured I could just unlock the drive and maybe chkdsk /r would pick up where it left off. Well, every time I go to My Computer it basically freezes and if I try to click/right on any drive in the My Computer window it goes to "Not Responding" thus making it impossible for me to unlock the drive and forcing Explorer to restart.
SO, my question is how can I fix this? The chkdsk has been frozen at the same stage and I really don't know if it will make any more progress while the drive is locked.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
So as the title states I'm having an issue with CHKDSK /r being performed on my external hard drive. So let me explain as best as I can what's going on.
My WD 1TB hard drive has been acting up lately. Haven't been able to open large files without lagging, unable to transfer files to and from my external hard drive, etc. I first ran Disk Management to see if my drive(s) were okay. My laptop's hard drive was in perfect condition and it also stated that my external hard drive was 100% Healthy, it was still it NTSF format (not RAW), so that all seemed okay. SO, after doing some research I took it upon myself to run a chkdsk /r on the external hard drive to see if that could clean it up. The scan was doing just fine but given the fact that there were so many files having to be scanned (465000 files) I decided to just let it run over night while I went to sleep. This morning however, I checked on it and it was at Stage 4, 11%, file number 454146. It's been sitting at that stage/file number all day. I believe what had happened was the external hard drive had eventually locked itself. It generally does this if it is not being used or if the laptop goes to sleep (which it did not btw). So I figured I could just unlock the drive and maybe chkdsk /r would pick up where it left off. Well, every time I go to My Computer it basically freezes and if I try to click/right on any drive in the My Computer window it goes to "Not Responding" thus making it impossible for me to unlock the drive and forcing Explorer to restart.
SO, my question is how can I fix this? The chkdsk has been frozen at the same stage and I really don't know if it will make any more progress while the drive is locked.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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