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CHKDSK on SSD
My laptop with a SSD (different from one in my system specs) recently froze up so I had to force shutdown it. There seems to be no corruption, but can I run chkdsk to make sure it is okay?
My laptop with a SSD (different from one in my system specs) recently froze up so I had to force shutdown it. There seems to be no corruption, but can I run chkdsk to make sure it is okay?
There would be no problem.
Same question was asked and answered by our own Brink, in the past
Checkdisk on SSD
Running chkdsk on an SSD is fine.
You just don't want to defrag a SSD. Instead, you would want to TRIM a SSD. :)
Wait, but do ssds even get bad sectors? This is how the freeze happened, I was trying to open Windows Explorer, and it didn't stop loading. Nothing else was clickable but the cursor was movable, and stayed as the loading cursor. So I tried to force sleep by closing the lid, but it didn't sleep. So I opened it again and the screen was black with the power button still on. I tried pressing the power button to see what happens but it stayed black. So I just waited for the disk activity to stop and held the power button to force it off. There is no visible signs of corruption though in my personal files. But it did start up slower but this must be because Windows was not able to do hybrid boot since the drivers and the kernel was not saved to disk.
If you drop power in the middle of a write to disk (SSD) operation, you can still get a corrupted file/folder.
Yes, run it. Remember on any hard drive it is not wise to run it too often. Good to run if you have performance problems or after a lot of downloads.
How come it is bad to run it often? Just wondering because on my old computer, I ran it any time I felt like the computer was running slow. That was about once a week. Sometimes less often.