This message usually appears if the files on the drive are in use, e.g., the System drive, and ChkDsk is unable to execute. While you can always force the volume to dismount or invalidate all open ...

If your hard drive on your PC is experiencing a lot of errors, one of the solutions is to do a search for bad sectors and try to fix them. To do that you can use a built-in Windows utility called ...

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 ...

Microsoft explained this week that it has updated its venerable CHKDSK utility for Windows 8 such that you won't really need to use it anymore. In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, CHKDSK is still ...

My hard drive was having some issue (can't access some files) so I have decided to run a chkdsk /r to fix whatever is corrupted, then move all data off it. The issue is chkdsk seems to get stuck at ...

Microsoft released the usual set of Patch Tuesday updates to supported Windows versions earlier this month. While the updates brought the usual bug fixes, improvements, and security patches, there ...

Microsoft recently acknowledged an issue that some Windows 10 customers have been complaining about. The issue caused the Windows 10 devices to fail to boot when the chkdsk tool was used to repair ...

If you need to check the integrity if your file system using the built-in Check Disk utility in Windows 10, be advised that some users are reporting issues with it, when attaching the "/f" parameter, ...

Microsoft released the RTM version of Windows 7 yesterday to the Microsoft technical community. The initial excitement quickly turned to sensational headlines about a “showstopper” or “critical” bug ...

Microsoft explained this week that it has updated its venerable CHKDSK utility for Windows 8 such that you won't really need to use it anymore. In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, CHKDSK is still ...