It includes many extra parameters that allow you to perform a deeper analysis of the drive for errors or bad sectors. If you need more fine-grained control of the error-checking process, I suggest you run chkdsk from the command line. Once it has completed, you’ll see a message on whether there were any errors found on the hard drive or not.įinally, you can click on Show Details, which will load up the Event Viewer and show you that it actually ran chkdsk on the system. Windows will begin scanning your drive for any errors.
