From time to time, it is a good practice to check your hard drive (hard disk) for errors using a tool built into Windows called CHKDSK (for Check Disk). It is important that you keep a watch on your ...

In a recent post on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Senior Program Manager, Windows Core Storage and File Systems, Kiran Bangalore, discusses a new NTFS health model and redesigned chkdsk (check disk) ...

Sometimes you want to mount a disk image to see what's inside, install software, or even play a game, but you don't always want to burn a CD or DVD to do it. That's where disk image tools come in ...

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 ...

What Hard Disk do I have? Do I have an SSD, HDD, or Hybrid Drive? How can I check the Specifications and RPM of the Hard Drive of my Windows computer? These are some of the questions we will try to ...

If your Windows XP computer shuts down unexpectedly or if disk errors are detected, the automatic Check Disk Utility will run during the startup process. If the hard disks are large, the Check Disk ...