How to Avoid or Fix Disk Failure by using Check Disk and System File Checker

Fix Hard Drive Errors using Disk Check and System File Checker.

Hard drive is very important part of computer system. You may have all the important data in it and can not afford to lose it. So we are going see how check and repair disk errors and regurly do the disk health check to avoid any hard drive failure.

Basically these errors we are talking about are like Hard Drive is not responding properly Or giving some or more errors when you are trying to access it.

So lets perform this simple operations you can follow on regular basis.

1. Use SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Microsoft has provided the basic tool to check and correct if there are any issue with the windows system files? SFC /SCANNOW is used to scan to see if you have any missing, corrupted, or modified Windows system files and if it finds anything like that, it attempts to repair them by replacing with a clean copy from backup component store.

So go to the start menu type CMD, right click on it and type SFC /SCANNOW and hit enter.

It will take some time may be an hour to complete the varification depending on the size of hard drive and number of files availalbe in it. Do not close the window before it completes 100%.

It will scan all the protected system files. It replaces the found corrupted files with the one located in C:\Windows\system32\dllcache. This file is in a compressed folder.

Once its complete, it will show the results as saying "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violation." Which is self explanatory and tells us that your windows do not have any missing or corrupted files.

Sometimes after completing the System File Checker, you may receive other messages like,
a. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. Details are included in the CBS.Log %WinDir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log.

Which is a positive message saying that yes, Windows Resource Protection has found some corrupted files and successfully repaired them. Details are included in the CBS.Log present at C:\Windows\Logs\CBS

You may receive the other message like this

b. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log %WinDir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log.
We have already addressed this issue with the solution in this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cWplaeB1Y
You can click on it and go through it for the resolution.

The last you can get the following message saying that.
c. Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

To resolve this problem, perform the System File Checker scan in safe mode, and make sure that the PendingDeletes and PendingRenames folders exist under %WinDir%\WinSxS\Temp.

But as our operation of System File Checker is completed successfully with this message "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violation." we dont have to worry about the other messages. Lets move ahead with the second operation now.

2. Use CHKDSK
Check Disk or chkdsk is used to see if a hard drive has any file system errors and bad sectors on it, and attempts to repair them if found.
Will have to run this command for each drive. I have these three drives in my system.
So type this command in cmd : chkdsk C:\ D:\ E:\ and hit enter. We need to run this command for each drive.

First lets check it for C Drive. So type this simple command.
CHKDSK C: /F /R /V

Here Parameters F, R and V each has its importance

Parameter /F Automatically Fix file system errors on the disk.
Parameter /R Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors and
Parameter /V Displays the full path and the name of every file on the disk.

So once you type the command in command prompt, hit enter and It will start scanning all the files on system. It will take some time dependint on the size of disk and total number of files on it. Again do not close CMD before it completes.

Its a good practice to run these operations on regular basis as its not an automatic process.

Once the scanning is complete, you can see whole lot of information including,

Total Disk space
Total number of files available on disk.
Indexes,
Total number of bad sectors in size,
Current used space on the disk
Space occupied by log files
Current available space on the disk ETC.

So currently its saying 0KBs of bad sectors. Which means no issues of bad sectors with our our disk.

Once the Check disk for C drive is complete, do it for D drive and also for other available drives on your system to make sure everything is right in place. Its always a good practice and in our best interest to perform these operations on regular basis. Lets say once in a month.

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