If Windows is freezing or crashing a lot, you might want to try and run system file checker as it could be a problem with corrupt or missing system files. If it does find a problem, it loads the original system file to replace the deleted or damaged one. System File Checker is a great tool that will verify all of the original files installed with Windows and make sure none of them have been deleted, replaced or otherwise damaged in some way. I’ve written another post that goes into detail about the command line version of chkdsk and explains the different parameters.

It includes many extra parameters that allow you to perform a deeper analysis of the drive for errors or bad sectors. If you need more fine-grained control of the error-checking process, I suggest you run chkdsk from the command line. Once it has completed, you’ll see a message on whether there were any errors found on the hard drive or not.įinally, you can click on Show Details, which will load up the Event Viewer and show you that it actually ran chkdsk on the system. Windows will begin scanning your drive for any errors. Click on the Tools tab and then click on the Check button under Error Checking.

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