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Windows 8's NTFS health model to be 'less intrusive'

...new NTFS health model, the company said on Thursday that the "redesigned" chkdsk utility would lead to less downtime. It will also run for shorter... Read more

11 May, 2012
Windows 8 Server Developer Preview

Windows 8 Server Developer Preview

...bigger changes is to how Windows handles disk checks. Instead of long CHKDSK operations that can take hours, with a file system offline, new tools... Read more

14 September, 2011 by Simon Bisson
Photos: building a Sandy Bridge PC

Photos: building a Sandy Bridge PC

...The red LEDs only light up on hard disk activity — we ran chkdsk continuously in a batch file to grab this image — and it's... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Manek Dubash
Ten tips to cut the risk of hard-drive crashes

Ten tips to cut the risk of hard-drive crashes

...demise. Here are my 10 suggestions for prolonging storage life. 1. Run chkdsk All hard disks eventually contain errors. These errors can include physical problems... Read more

25 February, 2011 by Jack Wallen
CHK File Recovery 1.2

CHK File Recovery 1.2

...Whenever a disk scan and repair tool run, such as ScanDisk or ChkDsk (depending on your operating system), the default action when finding errors on... Read more

10 April, 2012
CheckDiskGUI U3 1.1.5

CheckDiskGUI U3 1.1.5

CheckDiskGUI U3 is a Graphical User Interface for the commandline version of chkdsk.exe. Chkdks.exe is a tool for searching and repairing disk errors... Read more

9 April, 2012
DllSuite 1.0

DllSuite 1.0

...rundll32.exe & hal.dll Errors; Windows Media Player Errors; Java Scripting Errros; Chkdsk and Scan Disk Errors; Dr. Watson Errors; Blue Screen of Death; Problems... Read more

9 April, 2012
CheckDiskGUI 1.1.5

CheckDiskGUI 1.1.5

CheckDiskGUI is a Graphical User Interface for the commandline version of chkdsk.exe. Chkdks.exe is a tool for searching and repairing disk errors... Read more

9 April, 2012
Chk-Back 1.0.1.1

Chk-Back 1.0.1.1

...Back data recovery software can help restore data corrupted by the Windows CHKDSK process. If data is lost during CHKDSK (check disk), this utility can... Read more

2 April, 2012

Essential DOS

...you'd enter the following command: ATTRIB TEST.SYS --S --H -R CHKDSK Although CHKDSK has never completely gone away, ScanDisk has overshadowed it. However... Read more

2 October, 2002 by Brien M Posey

This week I 'ave been mostly running chkdsk

...this week. All were easily repaired. Most reasonably technical users know of chkdsk, a Microsoft utility that repairs scrambled hard drives, fewer know how effectively... Read more

12 November, 2008

Not Far from the Tree

...we put on the AC supply, it immediately booted up. I ran chkdsk and it booted every time there-after. Somebody had thrown it out... Read more

7 April, 2010
Ten tech jobs you should be able to do blindfold

Ten tech jobs you should be able to do blindfold

...machines received a daily hammering. It took only a quick run of chkdsk to find out the machines' drives had errors. This command should definitely... Read more

5 March, 2010 by Jack Wallen

Convincing the World, One Computer and One User at a Time

...it see that we had been messing with the disk, it ran chkdsk automatically and got everything so that it was happy. Then I rebooted... Read more

31 August, 2009

Seeking your techno guru

...fix it? a) Boot to a Windows CD in order to run chkdsk via the recovery console. b) Try to boot to safe mode and... Read more

27 November, 2008

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