If your hard drive on your PC is experiencing a lot of errors, one of the solutions is to do a search for bad sectors and try to fix them. To do that you can use a built-in Windows utility called ...

If you find that Check Disk or ChkDsk is stuck at a particular percentage or hangs at some stage in Windows 11/10, then this post suggests some troubleshooting steps that may help you. It could be 10% ...

Microsoft explained this week that it has updated its venerable CHKDSK utility for Windows 8 such that you won't really need to use it anymore. In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, CHKDSK is still ...

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The hard disk of your PC can take a hit if the power supply (SMPS) does not yield the desired output required for all the hardware and peripherals to function. This can lead to data corruption. During ...

Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data. How you go about performing a disk check on a hard drive has changed somewhat with the ...

A computer running Chkdsk during startup is probably not causing harm, but it could still be cause for alarm. This command-line utility also called Check Disk checks for and fixes file system issues ...

If you frequently face a system crash, screen freeze, or the legendary BSOD – Blue Screen Of Death – on your Windows computer, certain registry files in Windows are likely corrupted. These problems ...

Stealthy malware that can sneak onto machines during the boot process and remain undetected indefinitely is one of the brass rings of security research. There have been a number of tools developed ...