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How to stop Checkdisk?
Locust76
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My wife managed to let gravity get the best of her laptop the other day... needless to say, the OS didn't boot any more without being freshly installed. (thank god I had spare drives)
However, out of sheer morbid curiosity, I decided to pop the old drive into a USB enclosure, wipe it and check it for errors. It's been running for quite some time now, and already the eventlog is showing tons of bad blocks.
I'm going to toss this drive, however I can't get checkdisk (not the command prompt one, the GUI one) from stopping. I don't see anything that's painfully obvious in the task manager, either. How can I stop this thing gracefully without yanking the USB cable out or restarting the computer?
However, out of sheer morbid curiosity, I decided to pop the old drive into a USB enclosure, wipe it and check it for errors. It's been running for quite some time now, and already the eventlog is showing tons of bad blocks.
I'm going to toss this drive, however I can't get checkdisk (not the command prompt one, the GUI one) from stopping. I don't see anything that's painfully obvious in the task manager, either. How can I stop this thing gracefully without yanking the USB cable out or restarting the computer?
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I'm just guessing
unfortunately CTRL-Break will just make Windows laugh at me :P
edit: USB? unplug the thing. Windows will get pissed and throw a warning, but it won't hurt anything.