How to repair a hard disk Usage of CHKDSK in Windows

CHKDSK is an useful troubleshooting tool in windows. You can run CHKDSK to scan the drive to check the errors, it will fix some of the logical errors it detected. It is available in all versions of Windows.You can access to the Command prompt by click Start>Run an type “CMD” to open the command prompt window. It helps to scan the hard drive to find and fix the problems. This article will introduce some of the commands in windows to help you to fix the drive.

How to repair a hard disk with CHKDSK?

Check disk with Windows explorer

Right-click the drive you need to fix, and chose Properties from the right-click menu. In the properties menu, click the Tools tab, you will see a Check button. Click this button to check the drive. The windows will prompt you that you do not need to scan this drive if it found no errors here. But if you want to you can still scan the drive. Before you start to scan the drive, you are also required to choose to automatically fix file system errors or scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. If have checked both of them, it will take you a long time to scan and fix the errors. The experts suggest to run chkdsk every few month to maintenance your hard drive. It can schedule it to run when the windows shut down abnormally or run when it boot.

How to run check disk in command prompt?

Type CMD in the search box and run the cmd.exe as administrator. If you want to scan and fix the system drive, you can type “chkdsk C: /f or Chkdsk C: /r to scan for bad sectors and try to fix the bad sectors.

Also, you can run a third-party tool to fix the hard disk. It may be an easier way for all of us but you should choose a professional and reliable tool.

How to recover data from hard drive?

Run chkdsk regularly can help you to reduce data loss in long run, so you’d better check your disk regularly. Once there are bad sectors, all the data on the bad sector cannot be recovered. If your data loss are due to accident deletion, formatting or other logical problems, you should try to use the data retrieval tool to restore them immediately. After you lost the data, the content of the data are still on the hard drive, they will not be erased until they are replaced by new data. Therefore, as long as you recover your data at the first time, generally you can recover all the data back. Data loss is not serious at all, what matters is to avoid more data loss after that and recover the data in time.