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Health, Bad Sectors in Windows 7 / 8 / 10 RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows errors and improve system performance From time to time, it is a good practice to check your hard drive (hard disk) for errors using a tool built in to
Check Hard Drive For Errors
Windows called CHKDSK (for Check Disk). It is important that you keep a watch on your Hard
How To Run Chkdsk
Disk health. How do hard disk errors happen? Other than the CD/DVD drive in your PC or laptop, the hard disk is the only component chkdsk windows 10 with moving parts, spinning at speeds up to 7200 revolutions per minute whether you are doing anything on your computer or not. Due to this alone, wear & tear takes place and file errors or even bad sectors on the http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-update/summary-report-for-hard-disk-error-check/fa35a8f6-873b-4841-8748-7a5c44a85b37 physical disk itself can occur. Power surges, bumping or dropping the PC (particularly laptops) can cause errors as well. What can CHKDSK do? It can look for cluster errors as well as file problems. Often, you may not realize that your hard disk has an error until you run CHKDSK or another program. For instance, I did not know that my laptop’s hard disk had an error until I attempted to create a disk image with Acronis True Image. It http://www.thewindowsclub.com/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-windows warned me that the drive had errors that needed to be fixed before image creation could take place. Let’s run CHKDSK. There are actually two ways to do this, a graphical and a command-line version. To run the graphical version, click Start>Computer and right-click the drive to check (usually C:) then click Properties. Go to the Tools tab. Click the Check Now button. In the window that appears, two options are available: Automatically Fix File System Errors (checked by default), and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors For the first time, leave box boxes unchecked and click Start and wait for a report. Click on the Details arrow to get the full report. Advertisement ^ If no errors are found, that’s great! If however, errors were discovered, then re-run CHKDSK with ‘Automatically fix file system errors’ checked. Note that if you attempt to run this on your Windows partition, it will tell you that the file system is in use, and do you want to check for errors the next time you start your computer? Click ‘Schedule disk check’ and then the next time you restart your Windows PC the CHKDSK utility will run before Windows starts up. When it finishes, it will display an onscreen report. As for the #2 option above, this will cause CHKDSK to perform a sector-by-sector surface check of the hard disk, which will take some time. If Check Disk finds a
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