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    Help! Disk Check won't work

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Guitarsmasher, Apr 4, 2008.

  1. Guitarsmasher

    Guitarsmasher Notebook Enthusiast

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    I received a warning message on Vista a couple hours ago saying that the data on my HD may be corrupted and it advised that I do a disk check. Well, I scheduled a disk check to happen the next time i boot the system. So I reboot the computer, and it boots normally! As if I didn't schedule the disk check. Does anyone have a solution to this? I need to check the disk.
     
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    redrubberpenguin Notebook Consultant

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    I had the same problem once... what I did was boot off of my Vista DVD, then use the option that's included there to check my disk. Hope that works for you too.
     
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    Do you mean the memory check? Thats all I can find on the boot DVD.
     
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    That may have been it. I just remember scanning off of the boot DVD, sorry I can't be more specific right now.
     
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    Thanks anyways, rep for you.

    I heard there's a way to check your disk using a command prompt, is this true?
     
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    yeah.. press F8 on startup and choose command prompt. I think you type chkdisk.exe or something.

    Alternatively, you can just use HDtune which is a dedicated HDD program
     
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    There is a way, if you type in "chkdsk" in the command prompt it will try to perform a disk scan. However, you may not be able to do it while the hard disk is in use (i.e. while you're booted into windows). That was the problem I had, which is why I used the OS disk to check the disk.
     
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