CHKDSK is a command-line utility that lets you find the bad sectors on a volume and verify the integrity of system files stored on the drive. It is used regularly by many Windows users to get the ...

The easiest way to check if a Disk uses GPT or MBR Partition would be to do it from the Disk Management window. If you are familiar with the Windows Command-line interpreter, you can use either ...

Your hard drive is the soul of your personal computer; the place where all your most important data is stored. While most personal computer components can be replaced, the invaluable data on your hard ...

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 ...

As most Ubuntu users have noticed, after 30 reboots you are forced into a time consuming disk integrity check. The Ubuntu Geek weblog demonstrates how you can track the number of reboots before your ...

Here’s a script for quickly checking on how much disk space you have on a system and how much of it is in use. It certainly beats using a calculator to tally up the columns in “df -k” output. We’re ...

Q: When my system reboots, I get a message that reads "One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. This disk check may be canceled at any time." And then, without me doing anything, I ...

Apple's Disk Utility has always checked the health of volume structures, but in Lion it will verify the structure of the partition tables as well. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...

Any day now, the folks who bought new PCs that qualified for free Windows Vista upgrades through Microsoft's Express Upgrade program will begin receiving their disks. Others are buying shrink-wrapped ...