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 ...

I ran chkdsk /r last night on my primary HDD and it reported and allegedly "recovered" (I think) 4 bad sectors. What does that mean and is there any way I can tell exactly what it did and did not do?

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 ...