CHKDSK is a command-line utility that lets you find the bad sectors on a volume and verify the integrity of system files stored on the drive. It is used regularly by many Windows users to get the ...

The easiest way to check if a Disk uses GPT or MBR Partition would be to do it from the Disk Management window. If you are familiar with the Windows Command-line interpreter, you can use either ...

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 ...

Your hard drive is the soul of your personal computer; the place where all your most important data is stored. While most personal computer components can be replaced, the invaluable data on your hard ...

Here’s a script for quickly checking on how much disk space you have on a system and how much of it is in use. It certainly beats using a calculator to tally up the columns in “df -k” output. We’re ...

One of the most difficult areas to troubleshoot is the hard drive. So, wouldn't you kill to have a set of troubleshooting steps to guide you? Read on as Faithe Wempen reveals her seven methods for ...

If you don’t routinely back up your data and have lost essential files from an external hard drive, external hard drive recovery can be challenging. External hard disk data recovery can be more ...

There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...