This tutorial will show you how to check your hard disk drive when you in DOS.
At DOS prompt type 'chkdsk' like shown below and the check will begin. While disk is checking and chkdsk found any problem will inform and ask you for confirmation to repair the errors.
After checking is completed statistical information will be displayed for status of your disk.
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will give you more specific results
will give you more specific results
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C:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume MAXTOR40G created 2004-10-16 00:20
Volume Serial Number is 1C1E-1CE3
Verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
39 076 544 KB total disk space.
840 992 KB in 826 hidden files.
147 392 KB in 4 587 folders.
28 918 144 KB in 51 528 files.
9 169 984 KB are available.
32 768 bytes in each allocation unit.
1 221 142 total allocation units on disk.
286 562 allocation units available on disk.
C:\>
If you want to check another disk go to this disk or just type at DOS prompt:
C:\>chkdsk d: |
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