stopping checkdisk

Discussion in 'PC' started by funkman, Jan 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM.

  1. funkman

    funkman Ultrasonic

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    my pc has went into checkdisk mode fixing stage 1 at startup.
    its going to take forever
    eta 297 hours
    1874176 things to check only done 4818 of them after 20 mins
    any way i can stop this?
    otherwise im just gonna have to hold power button in,as dont want to leave running all night
    only going to take another 333 hours now.
     
    Last edited: Jan 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
    funkman, Jan 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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  3. clone

    clone Audiosexual

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    That ETA is bogus. Checkdisk always lies early on. If you hard power off, you could make any corruption worse.

    Try control+c or some other keyboard shortcut to quit it.
     
    clone, Jan 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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