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 ...

I have a drive with some bad clusters on it, and I want to try to use chkdsk to fix them. My problem is, when I try <I>chkdsk/f</I>, it always says something like, <B>you must first run scandisk to ...

With over a decade of experience at Which?, Tom covers everything from tech advice to money-saving tips and highlights the best deals during major sales events. Windows has a handy feature called ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, we brought you news about a new bug with the Windows 10 Check Disk Utility (chkdsk) that is crippling some PCs. The bug was unfortunately introduced with KB4592438 for Windows 10 ...

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 ...

A nasty little bug managed to wriggle inside the raft of fixes supplied by Microsoft in some recent Patch Tuesday downloads. The bug was quite serious as it could mean that users experienced BSODs and ...