{"id":7720,"date":"2016-09-17T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2016-09-17T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T12:51:16","slug":"3-ways-to-run-disk-error-check-in-windows-10-8-and-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/3-ways-to-run-disk-error-check-in-windows-10-8-and-7\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Run Disk Error Check in Windows 10, 8 and 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

All versions of Windows come with a useful disk checking feature which can check the integrity of your hard disk, fix file system errors and scan for bad sectors. In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 ways to run disk error check in Windows 10, 8 and 7.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Run Disk Check from Windows Explorer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Windows Explorer. Right-click on the drive you want to run the disk check on, and choose Properties<\/strong>.\n

    \"disk-properties\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. Select the Tools<\/strong> tab. Under the “Error checking<\/strong>” section, click on the Check<\/strong> button.\n

    \"disk-error-checking\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. Click on Scan drive<\/strong> button to run the disk check.\n

    \"scanning-disk\"<\/p>\n

    If your selected drive is a system partition that is being used, Windows will let you schedule a disk check on the next restart.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Run Disk Check Using the Chkdsk Command Line<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. \n

      Open an elevated Command Prompt.<\/p>\n

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      • In Windows 10\/8, simply press the Windows key + X and select “Command Prompt (Admin)<\/strong>“.<\/li>\n
      • In Windows 7, click on Start<\/strong>, navigate to Accessories<\/strong>, right-click on Command Prompt<\/strong> and select Run as administrator<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • You can run the chkdsk command to run the disk check. Replace C:<\/strong> with the letter of the drive you’d like to run a disk check.\n

        chkdsk \/f \/r C:<\/code><\/p>\n

        \"chkdsk-cmd\"<\/p>\n

        \tThe \/f<\/strong> flag tells windows to fix any issues and the \/r<\/strong> flag tells it to do a deep scan. It locates bad sectors and recovers whatever information is readable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Method 3: Run Disk Check By Setting The Dirty Bit<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Sometimes if your PC is not properly shut down or crashed, a dirty flag is set on the disk to force disk check to be run at the next reboot. Here is a simple way to set a dirty bit for your drive manually:<\/p>\n

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        1. Open an elevated Command Prompt.<\/li>\n
        2. Type the following command and press Enter. Replace C:<\/strong> with the letter of the drive you want to set as dirty.
          \nfsutil.exe dirty set C:<\/code><\/p>\n

          \"mark-disk-dirty\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

        3. Reboot your computer and Windows will force a disk check on your specified drive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          All versions of Windows come with a useful disk checking feature which can check the integrity of your hard disk, fix file system errors and scan for bad sectors. In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 ways to run disk error check in Windows 10, 8 and 7. Method 1: Run Disk Check from Windows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,3,39,5],"tags":[2946,2945,2944,2947],"class_list":["post-7720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","category-windows-vista","tag-run-check-disk-from-command-prompt","tag-run-chkdsk-windows","tag-run-windows-disk-check","tag-windows-disk-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7729,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}