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Choose Which Files Windows Search Indexes on Your PC Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/guide-to-using-check-disk-in-windows-vista/ exclusive access to our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY TRIVIA Search How-To Geek The How-To Geek Guide to Using Check Disk in Windows 7, 8, or 10 Anytime somebody has hard drive errors, I always recommend that they run chkdsk—what geek wouldn’t? Here’s a full guide to using the Check Disk feature built into every version of Windows. The disk error chkdsk or "Check Disk" utility is used in Windows to scan through your entire hard drive and find problems… it's like a lot like doing inventory… it's boring, but it has to be done sometimes. I recommend that you run through a check disk every month or two. This works the same in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10, so while the screens may disk error checking look slightly different in each version, they are all in the same place. Image by Nemo Using CheckDisk the GUI Way Open up Computer and then right-click on the drive you want to check, and choose Properties, or just click the drive, and then click the Properties button. Then select the Tools tab, and click the "Check Now" button. A little dialog will pop up to allow you to choose the options you want for the disk check. You should check both options if you want to really check the disk properly, but if you just want to do a quick check you could select only the first one. The only problem with that is that Windows can't check a drive that's being used, such as the system drive, but Windows will let you schedule a disk check for the next reboot. You should keep in mind that running through a full check disk takes quite a while, sometimes hours depending on how big the drive is and how many files you have. Cancelling the Scheduled Disk Check If you had scheduled a disk check but decided you would like to cancel it, you can run a command to