Windows 10: Is it safe to interrupt CHKDSK?

Hi,I decided to check both my external HDDs before going to bed last night. Now, after 8+ hours, there is still no progress and both drives are very hot 45°C and 46°C.Is it safe to interrupt the process at this stage?

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Is it safe to cancel chkdsk?

nickspeed,

I think the consequences of files being ruined would be minimal (affecting one to a few files when in use during a scan). In fact after doing some research after my posting, it's been told that interrupting chkdsk would not make a volume more corrupt than what
it was before. So if you feel that if you have any time to spare in the future, you can run chkdsk to continue fixing those corruptions from when you interrupted it.

One intuitive step to make sure that chkdsk isn't using the hard drive/solid state drive is to take note of the percentage or what it's currently doing. If it hasn't advanced since then, I would gather it's not doing anything and you can safely shut it down.

Hope that clears it up.

Source:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versi...(v=ws.11)

 

chkdsk c: /F

It might be an error on the drive. We suggests that you follow the troubleshooting steps below:

• Run Disk Cleanup utility to clear your junk files.
• Open an elevated CMD type sfc /scannow and hit Enter to run the System File Checker.
  
• Once the scan is completed, restart your computer. Remember to exit ChkDsk
  during boot.
• Next, again open CMD as admin type
  Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and hit Enter to repair the Windows image.
• Now see if ChkDsk able to complete the scan.

Note: Before doing the steps, make sure you save a back up of your files.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Receiving errors, System interrupts Deferred procedure calls and interrupt service routines

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate if you could answer a few questions to narrow down to the issue.

• 
  What is the make and model of the computer?
  
• 
  When exactly you received this error?
  
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  Did you make any recent changes to the computer?
  
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  Which connection are you using to access internet? Wired or wireless connection?
  
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  Did you install any third party security application?
  

A deferred procedure call is an interrupt-handling mechanism in the Windows operating system where the drivers can reference when running certain processes. Deferred procedure call allows a task to be activated but not executed, from a highly prioritized
interrupt request level (IRQL).

As an initial troubleshooting step, I suggest you to put the computer in Safe mode and check if you receive this error.

Start your PC in safe mode in Windows

Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.