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August 5

Scanning and repairing C drive

Any idea upper long it can be expected to take? It's been stuck on 1% for about an hour now :) ——SerialNumber54129 13:02, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

The size of the hard drive and speed rating would be 2 relevant numbers. I would expect it to possibly take hours, but a projected 100 hours does seem extreme. Perhaps it will get faster as whatever phase they put at the start is slowest. SinisterLefty (talk) 16:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

I advise you to replace the hard drive. This one is obviously failing. Ruslik_Zero 17:14, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Good idea. Be sure to make backups of everything important onto another device, before this hard drive fails. SinisterLefty (talk) 18:46, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

If you can, I'd clone it to an SSD. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 19:04, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

I suggest prioritizing the most important things first, as it could fail before you finish. SinisterLefty (talk) 19:20, 5 August 2019 (UTC)