chkdsk /r will happen on the next startup, which your users could easily skip over giving the count down timer to cancel the chkdsk.<BR><BR>It just isn't worth it. Look for Disk errors in the eventlog ...

I've run <I>chkdsk /r</I> numerous times both from the Recovery Console and from within Windows, which just does it on the next reboot. I've also checked the drive with Western Digital's Data ...

We still get quite a few questions about when and how to optimize storage devices. Easy answer: The care and feeding of storage devices is either taken care of automatically by Windows, or it’s simply ...

Q: I have recently started having problems with defragmentation. Previously, I would defrag once a month. Lately I am getting a message indicating that I need to run "CHKDSK." What does this mean? How ...

The built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 11/10, and is considered to be much better than its predecessors. The defrag engine and the manageability of ...