Few of that window utility for checking your disk to keep it optimally and free from error are Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter and Check Disk.
Check Disk is one tool that many people are unaware of in spite of being one of the oldest error checking tools in Window.
It comes with every version of Windows and has great potential to keep your hard disk fit. It helps you scan your system/drives for file system errors and bad sectors. Further, it tries to rectify and resolve the problems that lie within the disk
Things like invalid or broken file names and dates, bad sectors and cross links are targeted with each scan. And today we are going to tell you how you could perform or schedule such a scan.
Steps to Scan for disk error
Check Disk is a simple GUI activity. Follow the steps below:-Step 1: Select the drive you wish to scan and then right click the disk you intend scanning. Click the properties option as shown below
Step 2: Select Tools tab and hit on Check Now. A dialog with two check boxes will appear to let you choose the type of scan.
Step 3: I suggest you have both options checked to perform a fully fledged scan. For file errors check only you may stick to the first option. Hit Start when decided.
Step 4: If the drive is in use, your scan won’t start immediately. You may schedule the activity to auto-start when you reboot your machine next time.
Command Line Method
Very few people would opt doing it through the command line. Yet, there are certain things that may help. You may perform a short test scan that shows errors but doesn’t fix them even when you disk is in use.
1, Click "Start," then "Run." Type "cmd.exe" and then press "Enter.
2, Type "chkdsk x: /f" in the command prompt window and press "Enter," where "x:" is the drive letter of the NTFS partition you want to schedule checking on. Example, I typed C: because C is the drive disk I want to scan.
3, Type "Y" into the command prompt when you are asked if you want to schedule the volume to be checked on the next reboot.
4, Press the "Enter" key and then reboot your computer. The computer runs a Chkdsk scan of the specified NTFS partition before starting your operating system.
The command for it is chkdsk while the same to cancel a scheduled scan would be chkntfs /x <drive letter:>.
The list of switches that you can apply with the command is listed below. You may bring it up on your machine by typing the command chkdsk \?.
NOTE : When your computer is actively using a hard drive and you try to perform a Chkdsk operation on it, you are told that you cannot perform the operation while the drive is in use. This is because the Chkdsk utility requires full access to the drive to fix errors on it, so nothing else can use the drive while Chkdsk is running.
You can get around this issue by scheduling Chkdsk to run on the drive the next time you start up your computer.
ConclusionWindows management can get really easy and interesting if you know how to make use of the default tools. Check Disk is one such native Windows utility that you should make use of when you find your computer frequently slowing down for no visible reason.
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