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Monday, 27 February 2012

How to do a CHKDSK from command line in Windows

1. Click Start --> Run.

2. in the Run box type the following
    CMD

3. click Ok / Select CMD

4. At the command prompt, type the drive letter of the drive you want to check followed by a colon. then press enter. Eg. F:
5. Change to the root directory of the drive by typing , CD\

6.Type the following and press Enter.
   chkdsk /(text)

Where (text) may be one of the following.
 i. to automatically repair file system errors use /f. (Example chkdsk /f)
ii. to repair file system errors and scan for bad sectors use /r. (Example chkdsk /r)

    if you do not specify any parameters the errors will not be fixed

7. if you prompted to choose CHKDSK to run the next time windows start( because of the permission error in disk) type Y and Enter


8. now type EXIT

9. if you schedule CHKDSK then re start the windows. it will perform automatically in the start up.