I noticed my D: drive was marked as dirty and some folders were coming up as corrupted, so I recovered as much data as possible, and then scheduled a chkdsk /r /f on next restart, and I've been here since Thursday (it progressed a bit throughout Wednesday):

I now need to urgently access files on my C: drive, but don't know if I should interrupt this process with a forced power off.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Well unfortunately if it's the bearings dying, it continuing to run will likely overheat it and you risk locking it entirely. I've had to freeze a drive before scanning it and backing up, but it's only about 50% successful.

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