{"id":1305,"date":"2011-04-12T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2011-04-12T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:35:53","slug":"using-scan-disk-chkdsk-to-check-your-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/using-scan-disk-chkdsk-to-check-your-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Scan Disk (CHKDSK) to check your hard drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Scan Disk is a handy tool  included with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Window 7 that you can use to check  your hard drives for errors &#8212; and many times fix the errors it finds. You  should run CHKDSK every month or so to ensure the integrity of your hard  drive(s) and to fix any errors you may have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> But, there&#8217;s more to running CHKDSK than just running it in the default mode. By  using &#8220;switches&#8221; you can run CHKDSK like a pro, even if you&#8217;re not. Amaze your  friends with your knowledge! It&#8217;s easy. We&#8217;ll show you how to use Scan Disk and  show you a few switches you can use when running CHKDSK (and a little  explanation of what each switch does):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Let&#8217;s Check Our Hard Drive(s):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Double click on My Computer<\/li>\n<li>Right click on the drive you want to check<\/li>\n<li>Select Properties<\/li>\n<li>Click on the Tools tab<\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;Check Now&#8221; button<\/li>\n<li>Select &#8220;Automatically fix file system errors&#8221;<br \/>\nNote: this is the same as running CHKDSK \/f.<\/li>\n<li>Select (if desired) &#8220;Scan for and attempt  \trecovery of bad sectors&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is the same as using the switch CHKDSK \/R. this scan takes a long time  \t&#8211; so be prepared<\/li>\n<li>Reboot if necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also run CHKDSK from the command line (Run)  which will give you even more options. Click &#8220;Start&#8221; then &#8220;Run&#8221;\u00a0 then type  CMD . When the DOS-like window appears, type in one of the following commands at  the prompt (the flashing cursor). Be sure you leave a space after CHKDSK (before  the slash) or it won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the &#8220;switches&#8221; available. If you&#8217;re currently running Windows  and you&#8217;re attempting to run CHKDSK on the Windows drive you&#8217;ll get a message  that the volume (drive) is currently in use. You&#8217;ll be asked if you want to run  CHKDSK the next time you start Windows. If that&#8217;s what you want to do (and it  normally is, type &#8220;Y&#8221; without the quotes).<\/p>\n<p>CHKDSK \/F (Run CHKDSK and fix any errors)<br \/>\nCHKDSK \/R (Run CHKDSK and identify bad sectors)<br \/>\nCHKDSK \/V (Run CHKDSK on FAT32 drives and display a verbose (wordy) output<br \/>\nCHKDSK \/I (Run CHKDSK on NTFS drives and display a verbose output)<br \/>\nCHKDSK \/C (Run CHKDSK and skip the checking of cycles within folder structures)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scan Disk is a handy tool included with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Window 7 that you can use to check your hard drives for errors &#8212; and many times fix the errors it finds. You should run CHKDSK every month or so to ensure the integrity of your hard drive(s) and to fix any errors you may\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/using-scan-disk-chkdsk-to-check-your-hard-drives\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[900,899,898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}