CHKDSK is a command-line utility that lets you find the bad sectors on a volume and verify the integrity of system files stored on the drive. It is used regularly by many Windows users to get the ...

Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data. How you go about performing a disk check on a hard drive has changed somewhat with the ...

The easiest way to check if a Disk uses GPT or MBR Partition would be to do it from the Disk Management window. If you are familiar with the Windows Command-line interpreter, you can use either ...

When a hard disk fails and the computer doesn’t boot, the frenzy to save important company data ensues. When faced with such a problem, don’t panic. Just remember these simple hard drive ...

Delete the file and replace it. Then, if you haven't done it before, use the "/R" switch for chkdsk.

Ran into a brick wall on this one. Trying to use the disk builtin check with icinga2 for my linux boxes, but for anything other than the '/' partition, it tells me that the disk in question is "not ...

Of all the PC components, few require more care and attention than a hard drive. We’ve all heard the admonishments to defragment drives, and clean up junk files to keep all our 1s and 0s sparkling. No ...

Here’s a script for quickly checking on how much disk space you have on a system and how much of it is in use. It certainly beats using a calculator to tally up the columns in “df -k” output. We’re ...