Quote Originally Posted by patch697 View Post
You can schedule chkdsk on win7/64bit in a normal windows environment by right clicking on the drive in question going to properties, once in properties select the tools tab then click on the check now tab in the check error box (the top one) check both options boxes then press start. A message will appear asking you to schedule for next startup which you do & your done.

Chkdsk will take a while to complete its task & should reboot the system automatically when its done. If not it will prompt you ro reboot the system manually.
Hi Patch,

you can run CHKDSK in Windows Safe or normal mode but this will only do a minimal disk and environment check. It wont repair any problems it encounters but it will report if it does find any problems.

When running diagnostics on any HDD no matter what OS, you should run it with the drive "not mounted" meaning an operating system hasnt been started from it.

You can only run CHKDSK /R in a "DOS" environment before the OS has loaded. Win 32 or 64 bit.

Cheers,

Rob