Using Windows 7, how do I run CHKDSK?

Anonymous
2011-02-27T02:35:59+00:00

I've searched throughout the Control Panel and it's submenus and options but can find no means to initiate a scan for disk errors!

I did find chkdsk.exe in the Windows\System32 folder but when I double click it, the only response is a flash of the DOS {black, command prompt} screen! Is that the correct response?!

Is there no way to run [schedule] a scan disk [for errors] as there has been in earlier versions of Windows?!

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Anonymous
2011-02-27T17:52:55+00:00

It's done the same way in Windows 7 as it was in earlier versions of Windows:

  1. Open the "Computer" window
  2. Right-click on the drive in question
  3. Select the "Tools" tab
  4. In the Error-checking area, click <Check Now>.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-06-03T01:13:37+00:00

    robertkyte

    if you are an administrator ,go to control panel,user accounts ,and make another administrater account.. reboot into the new account and do whatever . you seem to have lost some authority in the old account.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-06-02T10:18:45+00:00

    Thanks

    I could not understand the other suggestions.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-05-11T14:37:09+00:00

    It's done the same way in Windows 7 as it was in earlier versions of Windows:

    1. Open the "Computer" window
    2. Right-click on the drive in question
    3. Select the "Tools" tab
    4. In the Error-checking area, click <Check Now>.

     

    No it is not the same way !! It USED to be you could invoke it from the "Start" button its entirely different you can't do it that way unless you are running in "elevated mode" whatever that means ,I too have tried to use it and I am administrator of my computer and it STILL will not let me use it that way

     

    Continued:

    "you must un-learn what you have learned"--yoda

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-05-11T14:33:43+00:00

    There are several ways to achieve your goal, here is a direct one.

    Try this:

    Click, Start>>>Computer>>>Highlight Os/C>>>Right click>>>Properties>>>Tools>>>Error Checking, Click, Check now

    HTH

    sure this is the Path... Yet when you try this it won't work as the drive is in use..... just sayin'

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