External chkdsk nightmare

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Hello again. Here I am with another storage issue.

I ran a check disk on my normal Hdd because I suspected it had errors which it didn't really have aside from 8kb bad sectors. However, stupid as I was, I decided to try a disk check on my 2TB external USB drive (from windows with both options ticked). I should never have done that. It has now been 15 hours and the bar is only at 10%. The drive has around 1TB of data on it.

Should I just keep waiting? And for how long? It is running fine and more and more files get examined. I know canceling could cause trouble. But will this chkdsk do something bad to my drive? I mean, I am running this disk check from the computer that is having problems (it sometimes won't start and is slow in some actions).

Many thanks for reading!

UPDATE: Oh God no. My computer crashed with blue screen while doing the chkdsk! Now I don't know what to trust, the files on my internal or external HDD! I just checked and it looks like nothing happened on the external after the crash. Can I really be this lucky? I mean, that the chkdsk crash didn't damage anything on the external drive?
 
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The second option "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" will write to and read from the entire disk, including free space. As such, it will be much slower, especially on an external drive. I'm not sure exactly how long that option would take though, and it will likely depend in part on the speed of the external enclosure and the USB port. Normally, you probably don't need to use that option unless you suspect the drive is having problems.

But since the system crashed, I guess that took care of itself. : P

Crashing during the check disk procedure shouldn't likely cause problems in and of itself though. Why are you scanning the drive? Do you think it's having issues? If you are scanning it just to scan it, then it would...
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The second option "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" will write to and read from the entire disk, including free space. As such, it will be much slower, especially on an external drive. I'm not sure exactly how long that option would take though, and it will likely depend in part on the speed of the external enclosure and the USB port. Normally, you probably don't need to use that option unless you suspect the drive is having problems.

But since the system crashed, I guess that took care of itself. : P

Crashing during the check disk procedure shouldn't likely cause problems in and of itself though. Why are you scanning the drive? Do you think it's having issues? If you are scanning it just to scan it, then it would probably be a bit drastic to reformat it for no reason.
 
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Thanks for the reply! I don't know why I did it, I just did it out of curiosity because my main HDD was having problems and I got the status report from CHKDSK. Then I wanted to campare it to my external which doesn't have any problems. Foolish of me! It crashed during this stage:

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I really hope nothing happened because the data on the external will be the backup data I'll use after I get my PC up and running again! I'm really happy to hear that it shouldn't be a real problem. It also looks like nothing happened to the data!
 
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