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chkdsk /r on a 14TB drive
I'm all Googled out on trying to find the answer so here I am.
Got a prompt to scan for possible errors on a 14TB drive in a USB-C dock. Clicked Scan with option to fix errors and it froze at about 16,000 files scanned in stage 4. Could stop it, didn't even see a process for it in Task Manager. So, I shut the machine down and rebooted to try the scan from a command prompt. I knew it would take forever but, some 6 hours later, I noticed the PC was starting to lag. Opened Task manager and it showed it was using almost 17,000,000K in memory and still climbing. Never seen anything even close to that!
Anyway, even though I know it's not the best practice, I exited CMD, shut the machine down and added the drive internally, hoping it might somehow make a difference. Not even close - Not even 1,000 files in and it's already showing 14,800,000K and going up.
SO... the big question is, is there anyway to finish a scan on a large drive that's not eventually going to lock up my computer?