- Sep 15, 2021
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Hope this is the right area to post about this, This all started after returning from a trip and after restarting my pc for a unrelated issue, I noticed anytime I opened explorer it would go slooooow and eventually it would freeze however this wasnt anything new to me as it happens occasionally with windows 10 so I ignored it for a bit but noticed that one of my drives was at 100% usage while doing nothing. I eventually made the decision to restart my pc and after doing so it was taking forever to start up and eventually a message came up alerting me that a check disk operation will commence on the disk if I didn't press any keys and being naïve I let it begin without question. I soon realized that this may take a few hours and was bummed but whatever, I went and did some chores around the house and came back to see the progress at 5% of stage 1 with an ETA of 30hrs, I was furious and distraught and after some time googling I decided to take the risk and turn off the pc and try booting again.
After booting, I skipped the check disk by pressing a key and after logging in I immediately pulled up the explorer to check the status of my drive and the G: drive was there as a "local drive" but blank and then I tried opening it and that brought an error that I unfortunately dont remember but soon after the explorer started bugging out and showing other drives as blank and eventually crashing, I then received a notification in the bottom right saying "click here to restart and repair drives". I was wary at first given the earlier experiences but feeling without options I clicked it and it slowly restarted. However before I was able to see the login screen the check disk operation started without warning and that's where I lost it, I gave it a few hours and I was still making it to 5% of stage 1 but not making it much further. I then tried turning it off a couple times seeing if I could skip it but I was never able to. Eventually, I decided to try booting into safe mode and after reaching the menu to do so I clicked restart and as I was gaining hope that I'd see the desktop again it again started the check disk with no opportunity to prevent it. At that point I was broken and gave up for a bit and let it run for 5 hours and eventually came back to see it still at 5% of stage 1 with an ETA of 140hrs.
I regained some hope after seeing a command that might disable the auto check disk but after putting it in to cmd through the auto repair menu and restarting it didn't work. So then I had one last idea and I tried taking out the drive causing all the issues and my pc booted fine after trying and failing to fix a disk that didn't exist for a brief second. However there remains a problem I have stuff on that 2tb drive that's pretty important to me so regaining use of it is important. I then plugged the drive in while logged in and it is recognized and I can see my files but it is still causing issues, anytime I am doing something related to that drive explorer is chugging and freezing, but I can see and interact with my files again, But I have noticed some folders give a warning that it is missing or corrupted. At this point I am asking for help as I don't know what I should do, do I run a chkdsk while I am logged in so that no matter how long it takes I can atleast use my pc? do I attempt to transfer my files to a new drive? what do I do?
After booting, I skipped the check disk by pressing a key and after logging in I immediately pulled up the explorer to check the status of my drive and the G: drive was there as a "local drive" but blank and then I tried opening it and that brought an error that I unfortunately dont remember but soon after the explorer started bugging out and showing other drives as blank and eventually crashing, I then received a notification in the bottom right saying "click here to restart and repair drives". I was wary at first given the earlier experiences but feeling without options I clicked it and it slowly restarted. However before I was able to see the login screen the check disk operation started without warning and that's where I lost it, I gave it a few hours and I was still making it to 5% of stage 1 but not making it much further. I then tried turning it off a couple times seeing if I could skip it but I was never able to. Eventually, I decided to try booting into safe mode and after reaching the menu to do so I clicked restart and as I was gaining hope that I'd see the desktop again it again started the check disk with no opportunity to prevent it. At that point I was broken and gave up for a bit and let it run for 5 hours and eventually came back to see it still at 5% of stage 1 with an ETA of 140hrs.
I regained some hope after seeing a command that might disable the auto check disk but after putting it in to cmd through the auto repair menu and restarting it didn't work. So then I had one last idea and I tried taking out the drive causing all the issues and my pc booted fine after trying and failing to fix a disk that didn't exist for a brief second. However there remains a problem I have stuff on that 2tb drive that's pretty important to me so regaining use of it is important. I then plugged the drive in while logged in and it is recognized and I can see my files but it is still causing issues, anytime I am doing something related to that drive explorer is chugging and freezing, but I can see and interact with my files again, But I have noticed some folders give a warning that it is missing or corrupted. At this point I am asking for help as I don't know what I should do, do I run a chkdsk while I am logged in so that no matter how long it takes I can atleast use my pc? do I attempt to transfer my files to a new drive? what do I do?
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