Windows 10: Performing chkdsk /r on external drive shows 47 hours to complete

I have been facing problem with my external HDD (1 TB) so after searching online I did chkdsk on that drive. Now it's showing that ETA is 47 hours.

Is it safe to stop the process in mid because it's not possible to wait that long. I did not think it would take that time for 1TB drive. Or is there any other solution

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Chkdsk is stucked at stage 4

Hello SyedosamaRO,

When I perform a chkdsk /f /r on my 2TB HDD, it takes five hours and fifteen minutes to complete. This is normal time for my 2TB HDD because it is examining the entire disk and clusters for corruption and repair.

My suggestion would be to first perform a chkdsk /f ONLY....not with the "r" stipulation...this will take just minutes to complete. Now, a reboot and repeat the shorter command again. Chkdsk /f has therapeutic effects, in itself, on your
HDD internal or external.

Later on, you may decide to again perform the full chkdsk /f /r /x. command knowing this it is going to take hours to complete.

What I am suggesting is, performing the shorter command first. This will have some positive effect on your external HDD. You can read the results in the Event Viewer by expanding Windows logs, expanding Applications, and then searching for "Wininit" among
the many entries, selecting it, and reading the results in the box to the middle right.

You might also consider performing the chkdsk command in the Windows Recovery Environment, aka Advanced Startup, choosing the command prompt located there. This can be useful because in the WinRE you are outside of the "C" drive in a separate
partition. This can aid in repair.

Those are my thoughts, hope that this can help you.

Regards,

Wayne

 

I STILL CANT OPEN MY DRIVE AFTER CHKDSK /R AND /F

before i ask a question about to fix sudden lag occur to my laptop and try every step they suggest. at that time my drive still can be open but taking time.

i chkdsk d: /r and chkdsk d: /f

on command eta say 999:00:00 but i think almost 20-22 hours

it say anything accept this thing:

file verification completed.

deleting orphan file record segment 892E8

deleting orphan file record segment 8BB88

deleting orphan file record segment 8BB89

deleting orphan file record segment 8BB8A

i hope my file can be save , almost has 1 tera of file in there

 

Is there a way to improve chkdsk performance in HDD?

I have a system which has 8 GB of RAM. While running chkdsk it takes quite a bit of time to complete. This is for external HDD. I know there are two options -

1. Have an SSD, that should improve performance but with a weak/strong possibility of lesser read and write cycles at least on the lower end of the SSD range.
   
2. Get more memory. This should improve the performance but I don't know how much as chkdsk appears to be a single threaded app which works serially. The only option might be have a large block size but don't know if it's possible, at least in Windows 10.
   
3. There is also possibility of defragging the filesystem which should help chkdsk as well but dunno how good or bad this will be?
   

The reason to improve chkdsk is mani-fold. I know if it starts happening too often, its probable that the HDD is prone to failure more .

The performance I am seeking for is more for external HDD's than internal HDD's at this moment in time.

The options I use are chkdsk g: /f /x /r on a Windows 10 box. The external HDD is a Seagate Slim BUP 2 TB HDD with support for only USB 2.0.

Currently, it takes anywhere between 7-10 hours or even more to check the whole HDD. I dunno if it should take that much time.