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How do I remount a drive CHKDSK unmounted?
Hi everyone,
I bought a new external hard drive a few weeks ago, this 1,5 To WD Elements model. Earlier today, I connected it to my Windows 7 laptop using a short USB cable for the first time [edit for clarity: been using the drive for a month, and it was my first time using that particular cable with it]. The copy from the HD to the laptop worked, but the copy from the laptop to the HD seemed to block or was very slow. When I canceled it (and I had to click several times to get the SuperCopier window to close), there was kind of a metallic "shtick!", an unpleasant noise. I did it twice, with the same result.
I ejected the drive, then plugged it back in using its usual USB cable instead. It said there was a problem and the drive needed to be checked. I said OK; it said it needed to unmounted it, again: OK, and off it went. After about 30 minutes, I realized this was gonna take something like 36 hours (the drive is full), so I cancelled (I clicked Cancel, the progress bar vanished but the window remained open, then after maybe 20 seconds, I clicked on the little red cross - is that what you call it? - and it closed).
Problem: Windows won't let me eject the drive, it says it's being used. But it's also not letting me access it, and Disk Management shows it as if it were empty. I guess CHKDSK didn't remount it on its own? So what do I do now, is there a procedure to remount it? Or should I just unplug the cable?
Oh, and the LED has been blinking constantly as if I were reading/writing something. It's been over an hour now! Also, explorer.exe is using an unusual lot of memory.
ETA: could it be that the procedure actually hasn't stopped? There doesn't seem to be an event for it in the event log yet. Would a cancelled CHKDSK show up in it?
Any advice? Thanks!
Last edited by Annaa; 04 Mar 2017 at 17:36.