The hard drive has errors what do you run to correct the file system?

Answer 1

On a Widows operating system,

1). Go to "My Computer".

2). Right click on the drive you wish to check for errors.

3). Select the "Tools" tab.

4). Select the "Error-checking" tab and click, "Check Now"

5). Check "Automatically fix file system errors" AND check "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"

6). Click "Start"

Note: If the hard drive you are checking for errors is the drive where your operating system is installed, you will be prompted that the the drive cannot be checked at this time but you will be given the option to schedule the drive (disc) check the next time you reboot your computer.

In this case choose, "schedule a dskchck".

6). Shut down the computer.

7). Reboot the computer; the hard drive is then, automatically checked for errors. Once the check is run and compelted, you computer will continue the re-boot process and your system is up, loaded and ready again to use.