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How to Check Your Hard Drive for Errors in Windows 7

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Posted Sep 29 2010 10:09 AM

This screencast will show you how to check your hard drive for errors in Windows 7. Before Windows 7 this was taken care of automatically with a program called ScanDisk. The content in this screencast is from Windows 7: The Missing Manual.

Note: Geeks fondly refer to this feature as chkdsk (apparently named by someone with no vowels on his keyboard). You get to the geek-friendly, text-only version of it by typing chkdsk in a Command Prompt window. But the method shown here is much better-looking.



Cover of Windows 7: The Missing Manual
Learn more about this topic from Windows 7: The Missing Manual. 

In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.

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Posted Oct 02 2010 08:34 PM

chkdsk will perform tests on the logical formatting of your hard drive.

Steve Gibson's spinrite will check the low-level functioning of the hard drive. Spinrite is a diagnostic, repair, and preventative utility for disk drive health. Spinrite and chkdsk are complementary.