This is an external WD 1TB drive. It is attached to a Dell Optiplex 745 running windows xp, sp 3 with only 4 GB of RAM. is there anyway to stop chkdsk on this drive without hurting the file structure or the drive itself? I really did not even mean to run chkdsk within windows on this drive! It is in phase 4 of chkdsk and after 2 hrs. only shows one green bar of completion. This drive is for storage only.....it runs no operating system.
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It has never been safe to stop CHKDSK once started as there is always a risk of corrupting your data.
If the data on the USB has been backed up you can try stopping it but as noted there is a risk.
Here is more information on this topic.
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This is both ridiculous and outrageous. A misplaced option could cause it to take many hours to complete, which one may not have.– MichaelNov 23, 2022 at 15:46