Additional Chkdsk commands

The basic error checking available from the same screen as defragment isn't all the error checking you can do. There's a command line version of this tool available to you with a number of extra options that are only intended for NTFS disks. Today I'd like to go over them for you. They really can prove to be quite handing when troubleshooting disk problems.

Click start --> Run and type in cmd type in chkdsk.exe plus one of the following switches. In the command prompt you will type in something like chkdsk.exe /X to run the desired operation.

• /C Will skip the checking of cycles within the folder structure to do a much faster run of chkdsk
• /I performs a not so thorough check of index entries, also making a faster run of chkdsk
• /L[:size:] allows you to designate the size of the log file.
• /X dismounts the drive before scanning. This is the most thorough scan available.