Ah, okay. Sounds like I'll have to get a new drive and hope I can salvage most of the data on this one. Thanks for the info.

Okay, maybe I'll try again overnight. If it had been moving at all I would have let it keep going, but it was stuck on Stage 4 file 141 for hours.

Okay, after a few hours I gave up and closed the window. I'm going to assume Check Disk getting stuck is probably not a good sign for my drive's health.

Okay, Check Disk appears to be stuck 141 files into "Stage 4: Looking for bad clusters in user file data." What should I do now? Is it safe to close the command prompt window?

edit: Stuck as in...

Yes, it's NTFS. What's the best way to check it for errors? It doesn't say there are errors with it when I plug it in if that's what you mean.

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I recently bought a new PC with Windows 10 and I am having some issues with an external USB hard drive that I was wondering if I could get some feedback on. Here's the problem: when trying to...