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Would this work? (Workaround for slow CHKDSK)
I've got a bunch of 6 2TB drives from Windows 7 to CHKDSK. There's probably some minor corruption on them and before relying on any I want to see what errors we get and let NTFS fix them as best it can.
So I need to chkdsk them. I timed chkdsk /f /r of a 2TB drive in windows 7 on a quad core with 8GB for fun - after a week I had to kill it. It's a known problem with Win7 but this time I can't laugh.
Thinking how to work round it, I realised Windows 7 and Windows XP use the same version of NTFS, and on WinXP I used chkdsk all the time on 1TB+ drives, no problem.
The disks are pure data, there's no system files or alternate streams (apart from recycler and sys volume info).
How safe is it to attach these drives to WinXP 32 and chkdsk them, or to copy the standalone chkdsk.exe from Windows XP 64 and run it on Win7 x64 in compatibility mode?