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Does CHKDSK have any volume size limitations?

A colleague of mine mentioned he thinks CHKDSK, since it's so old, probably doesn't support very large target volumes. For example, if you wanted to run CHKDSK on a single, super large volume like say,...
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File size mismatch by a huge margin in properties?

I have this single file on my HDD and it shows that its size is 150bytes but in properties tab it shows as 850 GB, What's happening here ?
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Mac OS won't properly recognize both partitions on external drive

I have a big external drive that's already in use by my Windows computer. I also need to use it for a Time Machine backup of a Mac. So far I've partitioned it up with MiniTools Partition Wizard. ...
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External HDD not assigned drive letter on Windows

I have an external 5TB drive (Seagate Expansion Desk). It has 2 partitions (FAT32 & NTFS) with valuable files. I may have unplugged it before without doing it "safely" on Windows 10. It is now not ...
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I'm unable to browse an external HDD on a Windows 10 laptop but can mount and view the files on Ubuntu & Android

The NTFS formatted hard-drive shows up ‘Local Disk (F:)’ in Explorer. When trying to open it, the error window states: F:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. ...
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How to access an APFS volume on Windows machine

I have a Lacie 4TB external HDD which have 1.5 TB of data but I am not able to access it as it looks like the the file system of the volume which contains my data is Apple's File System and I cant ...
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