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livid condor Jan 21, 2026, 9:17 PM

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Would that be potentially harmful to an HD, or is it very benign? Or is it resserved for disk that are like hard wired?

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my newb is showing 😩

lavish briar Jan 21, 2026, 9:20 PM

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it is a scan+repair command, it should be pretty safe to run on any drive, this is a tool that we had to use a lot back when we were using like... 3.5" floppy disks... after the year 2000 as hardware quality started to improve barely need it nowadays, but this might be a case

livid condor Jan 21, 2026, 9:20 PM

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Nice! I will try that
Would i need to point it at Drive E somehow?

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or like open the CMD from Drive E in the first place?

lavish briar Jan 21, 2026, 9:21 PM

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk?tabs=hdd%2Cevent-viewer

chkdsk

Reference article for the chkdsk command, which checks the file system and file system metadata of a volume for logical and physical errors.

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examples at bottom

livid condor Jan 21, 2026, 9:21 PM

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thank you!

lavish briar Jan 21, 2026, 9:22 PM

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drive letter and note the /f command, you can do a dry run first if you want (without /f)

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