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How safe is it to run CHKDSK on an SSD?
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Mar 15, 2026220298 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I recently saw Windows 7 pop up a warning or two that I should run chkdsk on my laptop. My laptop came with an SSD and I'm not sure if there are any negative implications to running chkdsk on such a drive. Are there any potential issues with reporting "bad sectors" on the drive? I would imagine tha…
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Are there any potential issues with reporting "bad sectors" on the drive? Conceivably chkdsk could report a sector or three as bad and tell the OS to stop using them. That would slightly reduce the available disk space, but it isn't permanent (you c…
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