chkdsk for specific folder - win 10

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I want to run chkdsk on a specific folder in Win 10.
The Microsoft Docs says:

chkdsk [<volume>[[<path>]<filename>]] [/f] [/v] [/r] [/x] [/i] [/c] [/l[:<size>]] [/b]

And I tried chkdsk d:\users\myusername\Music, but it gives this error:

The drive, the path, or the file name is not valid.

I also tried d:\\users..., D:\\users... and D:\users...; bot none of them work.

What am I doing wrong?

@Shahriar - I had to give up. I spent time with the Microsoft Article and the Appauls article I pointed on Windows 10, 7 and 11 and cannot make a folder scan work. I have deleted my answer for the time being. — anon, Commented Dec 18, 2021 at 15:01
Finally, I don't think it's possible to chkdsk less than the whole partition. Whatever documentation that says otherwise is outdated and relates to some previous Windows version. — harrymc, Commented Dec 18, 2021 at 15:24
My help is quite specific. Filename is FAT/FAT32 ONLY. See chkdsk /?. — user1644677, Commented Dec 18, 2021 at 17:05

Shahriar · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-18 17:14:14Z

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My bad. The disk has to be FAT/FAT32. Mine is NTFS.

answered Dec 18, 2021 at 17:14

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