Check disk vista

Sure enough, chkdsk found some disk errors and was even able to automatically repair disk errors it found. The underlying problem was that "Windows Defender" a Microsoft security tool to help protect your computer against spyware and other threats was scheduled to perform a complete system scan at 2am every night. This complete system scan involves a lot of hard disk activity and must have hit the problematic areas on the hard disk night after night.

In Windows Explorer, navigate to your hard disk, right-click the hard disk and select "Properties". In the hard disk properties dialog, click the "Tools" tab and then click on the button that says "Check Now". Windows Vista can sometimes be a little paranoid about running applications and will most likely issue the following security warning upon running Windows Vista chkdsk:. Check both options and click "Start".

Chkdsk will then complain that it can't do its job because the disk is in use and chkdsk wants exclusive access to your hard disk. Click the "Schedule disk check" button. This will cause chkdsk to run the next time your start your computer, before Windows is actually loaded.

You now need to shut down your computer. Don't just reboot, do a complete shut down and then power-up your pc. This can take quiet some time and some people tend to get impatient and interrupt chkdsk at this stage, but that is definitely not recommended! Please, feel free to also check out the Windows tips and tricks homepage or this Windows XP chkdsk article. However, when you run the basic analysis, Check Disk goes through only the three main stages. When you run the thorough analysis, Check Disk goes through the three main stages and the second optional stage.

Now that you know how it works, are you likely to use the GUI version of Vista's Check Disk tool to perform hard disk analysis operations? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this technique, please take a moment to drop by the Discussion area and let us hear from you. Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry.

In fact you can launch it from within Computer. Once you have Computer open, simply right-click the hard disk that you want to check and select the Properties command from the context menu. When the Properties dialog box appears, select the Tools tab. When the UAC appears, you'll need to respond appropriately. Figure B You'll use the option in this dialog box to configure how you want Check Disk to run.

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