Getting ready to check a drive for errors. You can force Windows to do the scan by clicking the Scan Drive option. If you are using Windows 10, you instead see a dialog box indicating if a scan is necessary. After you select your options, click the Start button and the utility will check your disk. A more thorough (and more time consuming) check is done if you check both checkboxes. (See Figure 2.)Ī relatively quick check is done if only the top checkbox is checked. For example, if you are using Windows 7, it displays a dialog box that allows you to set options for how the checking should be done. (The exact wording on the button depends on your version of Windows.) What you see next can vary, depending on your version of Windows. Next, click on the Check Now or Check button. Windows displays a Properties dialog box for the drive you should make sure the Tools tab is displayed.
(You can navigate to the drive any number of ways, including through Windows Explorer or File Explorer.) Right-click on the drive you want to check and select Properties from the resulting Context menu. Start by navigating to the disk drive you want to check. Running ChkDsk through the Windows Interface There are two ways to run ChkDsk: through the Windows interface or from the command line. A good habit to get into is to run ChkDsk periodically-say, every month or so-to ensure that you catch any disk problems early. The ChkDsk Utility (short for "Check Disk") is a useful part of Windows that allows you to check a given hard drive for problems.
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