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United States Australia United Kingdom Japan Newsletters Forums Resource Library Tech Pro Free Trial Membership Membership My Profile People Subscriptions My stuff Preferences Send a message Log Out TechRepublic Search GO Topics: CXO Cloud Big Data Security Innovation Software Data Centers hard disk error checking tool vista Networking Startups Tech & Work All Topics Sections: Photos Videos All Writers Newsletters Forums Resource hard disk error checking software Library Tech Pro Free Trial Editions: US United States Australia United Kingdom Japan Membership Membership My Profile People Subscriptions My stuff Preferences Send how to perform check disk a message Log Out Microsoft How do I ... use the Vista Check Disk tool for hard disk analysis? Greg Shultz shows you how to use the GUI version of Vista's Check Disk tool to perform two hard error checking hard drive disk analysis operations. By Greg Shultz | in Windows and Office, September 25, 2008, 1:42 AM PST RSS Comments Facebook Linkedin Twitter More Email Print Reddit Delicious Digg Pinterest Stumbleupon Google Plus While not as common as they once were, file system and sector errors do occasionally occur in Microsoft Windows Vista. These types of errors can be the result of faulty hardware, power failures, or even software errors. In most cases, Vista will recognize
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hard disk problems and automatically schedule Check Disk to run the next time the computer is restarted. However, if you're the proactive type, you might want to keep tabs on the status of your hard disk's health yourself rather than wait for Vista to recognize a problem. If so, you'll be glad to know that you can use the GUI version of Check Disk to perform a hard disk analysis operation at any time. If during the analysis you discover problems, then you can use Check Disk to fix those problems. In this edition of the Windows Vista Report, I'll show you how to use the GUI version of Vista's Check Disk tool to perform two hard disk analysis operations. This blog post is also available in PDF format as a TechRepublic download. Launching the Check Disk GUI While Check Disk is essentially a command-line tool, you don't have to open a Command Prompt Window to run it. In fact you can launch it from within Computer. Once you have Computer open, simply right-click the hard disk that you want to check and select the Properties command from the context menu. When the Properties dialog box appears, select the Tools tab. Then, in the Error Checking panel, shown in Figure A, click the Check Now button. Figure A To launch the GUI version of Che
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Windows 10 / 8 RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows errors and improve system performance Users of Windows 8 may have noticed that Disk http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disk-error-checking-windows-8 Error Checking is a bit different from the earlier versions of Windows. Checking your hard disk, every once in a while for errors - usually caused due to improper or http://smallbusiness.chron.com/check-hard-drive-errors-windows-vista-75580.html sudden shutdowns, corrupted software, metadata corruption, etc, - in Windows 7 and earlier is always a good practice as this can help solve some computer problems and improve the error checking performance of your Windows computer. Disk Error Checking in Windows 8 / 10 In Windows 8, Microsoft has redesigned chkdsk utility - the tool for detecting and fixing disk corruption. In Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a file system called ReFS, which does not require an offline chkdsk to repair corruptions - as it follows a different model for resiliency and hence error checking hard does not need to run the traditional chkdsk utility. The disk is periodically checked for file system errors, bad sectors, lost clusters, etc, during Automatic Maintenance and you now no longer need to really go and run it. In fact, Windows 8 now even exposes the state of the file-system and disk via the Action Center or under the Drive properties in File Explorer. If potential errors are found, you will be informed about it. You can continue to use the computer, while the scan is carried out in the background. If errors are found, you may be prompted via a notification to restart your computer. Read: How to cancel ChkDsk in Windows 8. If you wish to nevertheless manually run a scan, you can do so. Earlier you had to schedule Disk Error Checking for the system drive and for drives which had files or processes or folders opened. In Windows 8, error checking starts right away, even on the system drive - and it longer needs to be scheduled at start-up. Only if some
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