Win11/64 Laptop: Accidental Flash Drive Scan Less Painful This Time

Hi! Yesterday evening, I accidentally let my laptop scan a flash drive upon bootup. While I was starting up the system, I had a flash drive inserted into it. I thought I could get away with it and left the computer for a minute, only to find that, when I came back, the computer was scanning the drive for errors. I've been trying to avoid that, as when I do that, the computer takes hours to do the scan, but this time, it only took a few minutes. Just saying....