luckydog1949 Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 When running CHKDSK surface scan on system Restart, it seems to automatically check all external USB drives as well as the system drive (C:), on my laptop, without me prompting it to. Is this normal operation of CHKDSK, or am I just "lucky?" The USB drive that is currently being tested is a 3TB backup drive with several large drive images on it. I have been relegated to my (very) old spare laptop. It took several hours to scan one file, #24 in "CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)." It has since moved on to file #35 of 752. It's been four hours, so far.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 How did you initiate that CHKDSK? If you typed the command manually CHKDSK C: /Fthen you had to specify the drive to check, and it should not go and check other drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckydog1949 Posted June 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 It was run from "system tools" in System Mechanic. I thought, at first, that CHKDSK had hung up somehow, until I realized that it was testing the external drive. When there are several drive images nearing 200GB each, it definitely takes a while to verify file data! It took almost 24 hours to finish the scan. Oh well, lesson learned! Thank you for responding to my query. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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