Yes it should
by OH Smeg
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does closing cmd window t ...
Though quite a lot could have been deleted before you shut it down.
So what happens when you restart the unit reattach to the external Drive what shows?
If it's Vital to recover the data you should pack up the drive and send it to a Data Recovery House. If that's all that has happened it should be relatively cheap and easy to recover what has been deleted.
Just remember the more you mess with the drive unsuccessfully the less likely you are to get a full recovery and the more expensive it's going to be when you give it to a Professional.
Though if you are really Paranoid you could plug the drive into another computer and look at what's left on it. 
Col
does closing cmd window terminate the command running?
i was running a del /f/s/q filepath in cmd window
to delete a file the fast way
i clicked enter before i could type in the folder name so now it was deleting the entire folder and not the sub folder i had to put
i panicked and just closed the cmd window
i need to know if this stopped the mass deletion
i also shut down the computer .... and disconnected myself from the drive i was accessing
please help
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