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Fixing external Disk is very slow!

Anonymous
2020-01-06T09:57:41+00:00

Hi,

I have Windows 10.

I had a problem with my external hard drive (it said fatal hardware error) as it was not recognized by the system, though found as disk F:. I restarted as sometimes it fixes such bugs.

right at the start of booting, windows started fixing my external hard drive, completing after an hour.

At this point the explorer did not work properly, so I restarted it again. That was about 17 hours ago.

The computer tried to fix my external again, and is stuck on stage 2 where it's progress in a very slow.

write now the message I get is:

Fixing (F:) Stage 2: 92% (372408 of 400908); Total 71% ETA 6:09:27..

17 hours ago it was on 372108, so with this rate it will take months just to complete stage 2!

what should I do??

I would appreciate any help and/or suggestions.

I must add that loosing the files within the external hard drive is not an option, but not using the computer for about half a year is not desirable as well...

My system is Windows 10

Thank you in advance!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-07T10:59:26+00:00

    Dear Roy,

    Thank you for the answer.

    Yes, indeed the process is very slow: about 500 clusters/sectors per day.

    it started in about 372108 42 hours ago and now stands on 372902.

    I must add that it is a ridiculously slow pace, which WINDOWS should have warned me aboutBEFORE starting .

    If this pace continues, it means that in the next 2 MONTHS(!!!!!) I will not be able to use my computer NOR my disk, all for the completion of a process which might not be successful at all! :-(

    I would love to check my disk on another computer, a linux computer, but WINDOWS took my disk AND my computer as hostages, and I cant stop its processing in the middle, as I fear that the files in the disk will not seen anymore.

    Really, what should I do??

    I can not wait for so long for the files in the disk and I need the computer. 40 hours, and most likely many more hours, is too long of an impossible to stop process!

    What other options are available for me?

    Thanks again,

    Guy

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-07T09:58:15+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

    We understand your concern as the external hard disk is very slow and it’s giving a fatal hardware error.

    As per the description of the issue, you have provided seems that the external hard drive has some corrupted/bad sectors. Due to which the PC is running a check disk.

    Upon seeing the fixing report, seems that the corrupted region is getting fixed. At times it take longer duration than expected, we recommend users to complete the process without any hindrance.

    As you have mentioned in the post that you have restart the PC, in that case we would like to know the status of the external hard disk when it is connected on a different PC/device.

    Does it gives the same error or it works fine on the other device, if it works fine as it should be then we would suggest you to back up the data from the drive to be on the safer side. If not, then run the check disk completely till the process ends.

    Let us know the status of the issue.

    Aditya Roy

    Microsoft Community – Moderator

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