For my external HDD, should I do "chkdsk /r" or do I just Long format and Restore contents from a backup?

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ThaneOfWhiterun

Hello,I have a 5TB external HDD that I was creating a hash for all the files. I left it overnight and came back the next morning to see it completed. I then click the option to save the hash file and got an error saying "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable", which I find weird given how it just scanned all files in that drive and computed a hash successfully, I restarted PC and on boot up windows said it was repairing the drive.I used seatools to scan it but aborted the scan because it was taking to long. I then heard it was bad to abort and I might have corrupted something. I th

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