HOW TO FIX WINDOWS PC ERROR

To run the utility from the Command Prompt, follow these steps:

Boot your computer
Go to Start
Click Run
Type cmd in the box
Press Enter
You can now type chkdsk to open the utility in a read-only mode
Press Enter
To repair errors, follow these instructions:
- To repair errors without scanning for any bad sectors, type chkdsk volume: /f and press Enter, where volume is the letter of the drive you’d like to run a scan for, e.g. C: or D:
  Example of a command you need to type if your volume is C:
```
chkdsk C: /f
```
- To repair errors and scan for bad sectors, type chkdsk volume: /r and press Enter, where volume is the letter of the drive you’d like to repair, e.g. C: or D:
  Example of command you need to type if the volume you want to scan is D:
```
chkdsk D: /r
```

From My Computer

If you can’t boot into Windows XP to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials – our recovery disk for Windows XP – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.

To run CHKDSK from within Windows XP, but without Command Prompt, follow these steps:

Boot your computer
Go to on My Computer (double-click on the icon)
Right-click on the hard disk you’d like to run the utility on
Click Properties
Click Tools
At the Error-checking tab, select Check Now
To run the utility in the read-only mode, simply click Start
To repair errors, follow these instructions:
- To repair errors without scanning for bad sectors, select the Automatically fix file system errors box and click Start
- To repair errors and scan for bad sectors, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors box and click Start
Once finished, the utility will notify you if the scan reported errors (Errors were found and fixed.) or not (No errors were found.)