How do i run check disk in vista

However, to run Check Disk in analysis mode, you'll use other combinations of settings. Let's take a closer look. When you run Check Disk in fix-and-recovery mode, it performs its operation in five stages -- three major stages and two optional stages. However, when you run the basic analysis, Check Disk goes through only the three main stages.

When you run the thorough analysis, Check Disk goes through the three main stages and the second optional stage. Now that you know how it works, are you likely to use the GUI version of Vista's Check Disk tool to perform hard disk analysis operations?

As always, if you have comments or information to share about this technique, please take a moment to drop by the Discussion area and let us hear from you. Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry. In fact you can launch it from within Computer. This complete system scan involves a lot of hard disk activity and must have hit the problematic areas on the hard disk night after night.

In Windows Explorer, navigate to your hard disk, right-click the hard disk and select "Properties". In the hard disk properties dialog, click the "Tools" tab and then click on the button that says "Check Now". Windows Vista can sometimes be a little paranoid about running applications and will most likely issue the following security warning upon running Windows Vista chkdsk:. Check both options and click "Start". Chkdsk will then complain that it can't do its job because the disk is in use and chkdsk wants exclusive access to your hard disk.

Click the "Schedule disk check" button. This will cause chkdsk to run the next time your start your computer, before Windows is actually loaded. You now need to shut down your computer. Depending if you run the utility from Command Prompt or Recovery Console, the following parameters are different:. If so, type Y and press Enter to perform a scan at the next boot of your system.

You can use the original installation disc to run the utility tool. If the disk check utility must be ran on another volume, update the command with the letter of the drive you want to run a scan for:. You need to type Y to make sure the utility runs at the next boot.

If so, type Y , restart the computer and let the tool to perform the scan. Read more at Windows Recovery Disks.