▷ How to use chkdsk windows 10

CHKDSK is the abbreviation of the words Check Disk, or in Spanish check disk . Its function and mission is to analyze the storage units for errors and in turn try to correct them. In this tutorial we teach you how to use CHKDSK in Windows 10 and why it is recommended to know all its functions.

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Already in another of our articles we explain in detail what CHKDSK is and what we can use it for. So if you are here and you still don't know exactly how it works, you should take a look at it. CHKDSK not only can we run it through CMD, it is integrated into the system and we can access it through our hard drive.

Run CHKDSK Windows 10 from hard drive

• The first thing we will have to do is open our file explorer, that is, open any folder we have. We go to "This computer", where all our storage units are shown. We will have to access the properties of the hard disk in the that we are interested in applying the command. For this we right click on it and choose "Properties"

• We go to the "Tools" tab Click on the "Check" button located within the error checking section

If our unit has been recently analyzed, Windows has not detected any strange activity on it, possibly a message will appear notifying us that it is not necessary to examine that unit.

We click on the option of "Examine and repair unit" anyway.

In this way, CHKDSK will start to run on our computer without using the command window to do so.

For more information on the procedure that has been carried out, we can click on the "Show more details" link. In this case, a window will open showing us with detailed information about the process carried out by CHKDSK Windows 10.

If we look at the central part of the window we will see certain information. When we run this command in CMD it will show exactly the same.

Run CHKDSK Windows 10 from CMD

To run CHKDSK from the command prompt, you should know all its options and the usefulness of each one. To do this we again recommend you visit our article about what is CHKDSK. In it we explain all or at least its most important options and how you should write for its correct execution.

• In this case, the first thing we must do is go to the Start menu and write CMDPo execute it, we must do it with administrator permissions. To do this, right click on the search result and choose "Run as administrator"

To execute the command we will only have to write:

chkdsk : /

Where will be the letter that represents the storage unit and will be each of the options of this command.

Run CHKDSK Windows 10 from PowerShell

Another option very similar to the previous one is to run the command from Windows 10 PowerShell. In short, it is a command window like CMD but more advanced and current.

• To access it, press the key combination "Windows + X" on our keyboard. A list of options will appear above the Start button.

• We must choose the "Windows PowerShell" (Administrator) This way we will enter the command window.

If we write CHKDSK /? We will check that we have the same options as in the case of CMD.

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These are all the ways that we have to use CHKDSK Windows 10 on our computer. We hope that it has been useful for you and you choose the one you choose, you will be able to periodically maintain your hard drives to preserve their proper functioning. Or also detect faults that denote that your hard drive has little life left.