You can click Show Details, which will take you to the Event Viewer program and load up the Application log. When the scan is complete, you’ll get a message on whether or not there were any errors on the drive. I’ll talk about that in the next section below.

Note that this method via the GUI interface isn’t as thorough as the command line version (which is what runs in Windows 7 when you schedule the scan). The scanning process will begin and it shouldn’t take very long. However, if you want to perform a scan, go ahead and click on Scan drive. Instead, a popup dialog will appear and it may say that you don’t need to scan the drive because Windows hasn’t found any errors. You’ll only see this message if you are trying to scan the system partition where Windows is installed.įor Windows 10 users, none of those options are available. It’s a good idea to check both if you want chkdsk to try and repair the problems when they are found.įor Win 7 users, if you check both the boxes and click Start, you will get another dialog asking if you want to schedule the scan when the system restarts. Windows 7 users will get popup that gives you the options to automatically fix errors and to scan for bad sectors.

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