How to Run a Disk Check
The subject of check disk or chkdsk command is a much needed topic that is crucial for drive maintenance and is one thing many of the users I see are totally clueless about because not enough info is out their explaining why and how it needs to be done.
WARNING: running a disk check could take hours to perform. Best done in the evening while sleeping.
The reason drives need to be disk checked is because there are millions of sectors on hard drive platters and sometimes these sectors get bad and can either be repaired or the system tell itself not to write data to those sectors because they are "bad". The system files may also the repaired or "fix"ed.
The checkdisk for Windows XP may be performed through going to , then clicking on , then right clicking on the drive you are performing maintenance on. Now, go to the bottom of the popup screen and left click on , then go to , then go to the button labeled , then check the two boxes. You should now get a screen saying it will perform the check on reboot.
Now reboot but beware as this could take several hours to perform. You don't want to stop this process after you have started it.
To run the disk check through the "run" - command feature then hit , then click , then type in the next line and hit "Enter"
chkdsk volume: /f /r
The above volume is your drive letter.
PC Virus Doctors' Dallas PC Repair recommend runnning a disk check once a month.
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