Perform a Disk Check Within Windows

November 17, 2011

Perform a Disk Check Within Windows

By Chad Sweely

If you have been in the computing world for a long time, many of you will know of the MS-DOS command of chkdsk. This is a tool in MS-DOS that has been around since the early Windows 3.x days that thoroughly scans your hard drive, and can fix and report any logical file system errors. While chkdsk is running, the program can also check for physical issues, such as bad sectors, and also attempt to recover information that may be damaged associated with the bad sectors that it finds.

Up until Windows 2000 and XP, users could only run this command from an MS-DOS prompt; however, if you would like to use a more GUI-based application of this helpful tool, Windows 2000 (along with operating systems released after it) offers you a way that you can check the integrity of your hard drive without an MS-DOS prompt. To run chkdsk within Windows (called "Check Disk"), please follow the steps that I have provided below.

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