How To Run The Windows ChkDsk (Check Disk) Utility

Description

The Windows chkdsk utility helps to fix and repair various hard drive errors. It is able to fix a drive that may have some bad sectors or if there are inconsistencies with the drives indexing. There are different levels at which you can run this utility. By this I mean that you can run it just for reporting reasons, or you can actually have it fix errors it finds.

Difficulty Level

Medium

Runtime

  • 15 to 30 minutes in most cases
  • could take up to a few hours depending on size of drive and how many disk errors there are

Useful For Fixing

  • any number of hard drive errors
  • very slow computer
  • corrupt startup/boot files
  • computer will not boot

OS Requirements

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7


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Comments

  1. bow says:

    I don’t have legit windows so this doesn’t help much.
    Sometimes chkdsk runs when I try to turn it on, very rarely, this happens to me quite a bit, and Chkdsk helps every single time, this time, all it did was do 2/3 steps, one of them failed, no idea how to get it back on there, I’ve done all your other preivous steps, and still, nothing, the Last Know Good Configuration will not work because it just stops at starting windows loading screen, realllllllly annoying, Like seriously throwing computer out the window annoying.
    After this gets fixed, getting legit windows because this is f***** upppp. <Sorry, just oh wow..
    I know it's probably a virus, BUT, the only thing I did was download from youtube. as i do every other day and causes no problems. AAAAAHHHHH nothing works. :@
    Probably will have to go to a computer store and pay like 50k for them to fix this. -__-
    If you could help me out, that would be great!

    • Matt says:

      Sounds like you have a failing hard drive. Since it sounds like you do not have a Windows CD for this install then you might not have too many options.

      Sounds like your best course of action would be to get a new hard drive, get a legit copy of Windows, then pull your data off your old drive. It’s probably still good enough to pull the data from.

      I wish you the best!

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