Can I leave my Windows 10 PC alone while it runs Disc Checking?

[Steven_180]

Ive never been one to understand the ins and outs of DskChk utility in windows it runs sometimes to correct errors when i start my pc and Im fine with that but I have noticed that as Windows iterations have become more advanced (windows 7-10) the process has gotten longer and longer like stupid long to scan my 2tb boot drive talking in like 4 hours or more on the last time in ran on this windows 10 2tb drive pc I want to know if windows disk checking is a smart enough automated service to be left totally alone while i go out and take care of things i need to take care of as no normal human being wants to look at a screen that limited and boring for that long with no interaction basically what I am asking is can i schedule my windows 10 2tb drive pc to run a disk check as chkdsk /f /r on a elevated cmd prompt to run at next start up then reboot my pc leave my house for several hours to do other things and give it a chance to finish and then come back home to it completed and waiting for me at the login screen or is this not something i would want to do for good reason of some kind ?

 

[audie-tron25]

It's fine to do this. Maybe consider using the /F command only if it is taking too long but of course, that would depend on your HDD's condition. Maybe run a Disk Diagnostic tool if you are worried your drive is damaged since running CHKDSK can accelerate failure for a failing drive (due to the demands on the HDD).

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Ive never been one to understand the ins and outs of DskChk utility in windows it runs sometimes to correct errors when i start my pc and Im fine with that but I have noticed that as Windows iterations have become more advanced (windows 7-10) the process has gotten longer and longer like stupid long to scan my 2tb boot drive talking in like 4 hours or more on the last time in ran on this windows 10 2tb drive pc I want to know if windows disk checking is a smart enough automated service to be left totally alone while i go out and take care of things i need to take care of as no normal human being wants to look at a screen that limited and boring for that long with no interaction basically what I am asking is can i schedule my windows 10 2tb drive pc to run a disk check as chkdsk /f /r on a elevated cmd prompt to run at next start up then reboot my pc leave my house for several hours to do other things and give it a chance to finish and then come back home to it completed and waiting for me at the login screen or is this not something i would want to do for good reason of some kind ?

I have been running Windows computers for a couple of decades now and never once has my computer performed a disc check. I wonder why you have experienced this feature and I have never experienced this feature on any of the computers that I use, in any of the different versions of Windows that I have used.

 

[Steven_180]

Ive never been one to understand the ins and outs of DskChk utility in windows it runs sometimes to correct errors when i start my pc and Im fine with that but I have noticed that as Windows iterations have become more advanced (windows 7-10) the process has gotten longer and longer like stupid long to scan my 2tb boot drive talking in like 4 hours or more on the last time in ran on this windows 10 2tb drive pc I want to know if windows disk checking is a smart enough automated service to be left totally alone while i go out and take care of things i need to take care of as no normal human being wants to look at a screen that limited and boring for that long with no interaction basically what I am asking is can i schedule my windows 10 2tb drive pc to run a disk check as chkdsk /f /r on a elevated cmd prompt to run at next start up then reboot my pc leave my house for several hours to do other things and give it a chance to finish and then come back home to it completed and waiting for me at the login screen or is this not something i would want to do for good reason of some kind ?

I have been running Windows computers for a couple of decades now and never once has my computer performed a disc check. I wonder why you have experienced this feature and I have never experienced this feature on any of the computers that I use, in any of the different versions of Windows that I have used.

You have prolly just been exceptionally lucky as while truthfully i know virtually nothing about disk checking procedure and the like I have experienced it multiple times on every Windows computer I have ever owned (xp -10) but never gotten explained to me what the process actually does to the disk or just to what extent the process is automated until well now but now that i know i can start it and leave it be that has helped me to know i basically dont have to bother with it at all once it starts running when i turn on my computer and its not something i need to particularly worry about the details of and then again ALL of my windows pc's have had physical disk HDDs in them that could also have alot to do with it as oppose to SSD's