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CHKDSK is a Windows utility that can check the integrity of your hard disk and can fix various
file system errors.
Contents
1 Screenshots
2 How to run CHKDSK in Windows
o 2.1 CHKDSK in Windows XP
2.1.1 From Command Prompt
2.1.2 From My Computer
2.1.3 From the installation disc
o 2.2 CHKDSK in Windows Vista
2.2.1 From Command Prompt
2.2.2 From My Computer
2.2.3 From the installation disc
o 2.3 CHKDSK in Windows 7
2.3.1 From Command Prompt
2.3.2 From My Computer
2.3.3 From the installation disc
o 2.4 CHKDSK in Windows 8 or 8.1
2.4.1 From Command Prompt
2.4.2 From My Computer
2.4.3 From the installation disc
o 2.5 CHKDSK in Windows 10
2.5.1 From Command Prompt
2.5.2 From My Computer
2.5.3 From the installation disc
3 Commands and parameters
4 Download chkdsk
5 Troubleshooting
o 5.1 Cannot continue in read-only mode
o 5.2 Cannot run because the volume is in the use by another process
o 5.3 Cannot lock current drive
o 5.4 stop chkdsk on every boot
o 5.5 chkdsk won’t finish
o 5.6 chkdsk won’t run at startup
6 More Information
o 6.1 Support Links
o 6.2 Applicable Systems
It’s recommended to use this utility when your computer shows various boot errors. The check
disk utility can be run if you need a fix for the following errors:
0x00000024
Various blue screen of death errors
NTDETECT failed
Fatal error reading boot.ini
NTOSKRNL.EXE is missing or corrupt
0x0000007B
0xc0000001 on a Windows Vista computer
0xc000014C on a Windows 8 computer
and others
bad sectors
lost clusters
cross-linked files
directory errors
Screenshots
The check disk tool can be run via Command Prompt or, if you can boot into Windows from My
Computer > Properties > Tools depending on the Windows version you installed on your PC.
The command line tool can be ran on a Windows XP computer from within the Windows XP
Recovery Console:
The utility from within Windows XP, from My Computer and not Command Prompt:
This is how you start a scan with the disk utility if you can boot into Windows Vista:
How to run CHKDSK in Windows
This utility is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8.1.
If you can boot into Windows, you can run the check disk utility on each hard drive or partition
you have available in My Computer.
If you can’t boot the operating system, you can run the tool from Command Prompt either by
booting your computer into the Recovery Mode or by using the original installation disc to run
Command Prompt.
CHKDSK in Windows XP
If you can boot into Windows XP, you can run the utility either from the Command Prompt or
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 the utility from the Command Prompt, follow these steps:
7. Press Enter
8. To repair errors, follow these instructions:
o 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
o 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:
If you don’t have the installation disc 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.
If you can’t boot into Windows XP to run the utility use your original Microsoft Windows XP
installation disc to open Recovery Console.
chkdsk C: /r
where C: is the letter of the drive where Windows is installed and the /r parameter will
try to repair errors and scan for bad sectors.
To run this utility on Windows Vista computer, you can choose any of the following methods:
disk
If you can’t boot into Windows Vista to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows Vista – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
If you can boot into your operating system, run Command Prompt:
1. Open Windows Vista
2. Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt or in the search box
type Command Prompt and double-click the Command Prompt item available in the
chkdsk C: /r
4. If Windows Vista is installed on another drive that’s not labeled as C:, replace C: with
the letter of your hard disk:
chkdsk D: /r
5. Press Enter
If Command Prompt shows errors, try to run the command again until it shows no errors.
From My Computer
If you can’t boot into Windows Vista to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows Vista – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
You can also run the utility by going to Computer (My Computer):
o To perform a thorough check, select Scan for and attempt recovery of bad
sectors
o You can also check both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and
attempt recovery of bad sectors
8. Click Start
Don’t use the computer until the disk check is done. It may take several minutes depending on
the hard disk size.
If you don’t have the installation disc to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows Vista – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
If you can’t boot into Windows Vista, use the original installation disc to open Command Prompt
(the Recovery Console) and run the commands you need:
chkdsk c: /r
where C: is your hard disk drive’s letter (can be different from C: used here).
7. Press Enter
CHKDSK in Windows 7
The steps to run this utility in Windows 7 are similar to those of Windows Vista.
If you can boot into Windows 7, run the utility from Command Prompt directly:
1. Click Start
2. Type cmd at the Search program and files search box
3. Right-click on cmd.exe
4. Click Run as Administrator
chkdsk
7. Press Enter
8. You can run the tool with more parameters, like this:
chkdsk c: /r
This will check the drive for errors and will automatically try to fix any found errors.
9. If you receive the “Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.”
message, type Y to restart the computer and let the utility to run a scan at the next boot of
your PC
10. After you typed Y, close the Command Prompt
11. Restart the computer by going to Start > Shutdown > Restart
12. At the next boot, the check disk utility will automatically run a scan
From My Computer
If you can’t boot into Windows 7 to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials – our
recovery disk for Windows 7 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You
can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
The check disk utility can also be ran from My Computer to check for errors on your hard disk.
8. You can now run the check disk utility: select Scan for and attempt recovery of bad
sectors to let the utility attempt to repair any hard drive errors found
9. Click Start
If the volume you want to check is in use, e.g. C:/ where Windows Vista is installed, you may
receive the following error message:
Do you want to check for hard disk errors the next time you start your
computer?
If you receive the “Do you want to dismount this volume first?” message, follow the steps below.
This message appears if the volume you want to checked is locked, even if it’s not in use (e.g.
the C:/ drive):
Do you want to dismount this volume first? Note: All opened handles to this
volume will become invalid.
If you don’t have the installation disc to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows 7 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
chkdsk /f /r
8. Press Enter
Windows 8 or 8.1 users can run this utility by choosing any of the following methods:
If you can’t boot into Windows 8/8.1 to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows 8/8.1 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
chkdsk C: /f /r /x
/r option will locate for bad sectors and recovery any readable information
/x option will force the volume you’re about to check to be dismounted before the utility
begins a scan
If the C: drive is in use, type Y to run a scan at your PC’s next restart. If so, exit
Command Prompt and restart the computer.
From My Computer
If you can’t boot into Windows 8/8.1 to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows 8/8.1 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
To run the check disk utility from Computer (My Computer), follow these steps:
13. You can keep using the drive during the scan. If errors are found, you can decide if you
want to fix them. Depending on the results of this scan, the utility will report the results:
o If no errors were found, you’ll see this message:
o Your drive was successfully scanned
Windows successfully scanned the drive. No errors were found.
If you don’t have the installation disc to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows 8/8.1 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
If you can’t boot into Windows 8/8.1 to run Command Prompt, you can use the original
Windows 8/8.1 installation disc to run Command Prompt from there.
chkdsk C: /f /x /r
Press Enter
CHKDSK in Windows 10
Windows 10 users can run this utility by choosing any of the following methods:
If you can’t boot into Windows 10 to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials – our
recovery disk for Windows 10 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You
can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
chkdsk C: /f /r /x
/r option will locate for bad sectors and recovery any readable information
/x option will force the volume you’re about to check to be dismounted before the utility
begins a scan
If the C: drive is in use, type Y to run a scan at your PC’s next restart. If so, exit
Command Prompt and restart the computer.
From My Computer
If you can’t boot into Windows 10 to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials – our
recovery disk for Windows 10 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You
can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
To run the check disk utility from Computer (My Computer), follow these steps:
13. You can keep using the drive during the scan. If errors are found, you can decide if you
want to fix them. Depending on the results of this scan, the utility will report the results:
o If no errors were found, you’ll see this message:
o Your drive was successfully scanned
Windows successfully scanned the drive. No errors were found.
If you don’t have the installation disc to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials –
our recovery disk for Windows 10 – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
If you can’t boot into Windows 10 to run Command Prompt, you can use the original Windows
10 installation disc to run Command Prompt from there.
/i – applicable to a NTFS volume only. This option performs a check of index entries
/r – this option also implies the /f and /p option. This option locates the bad sectors of your
hard drive and recovers any readable information
Depending if you run the utility from Command Prompt or Recovery Console, the following
parameters are different:
/p – this fixes any errors on a volume. In your standard Command Prompt /p is only read-only
The mandatory requirement of this utility is the volume you’re about to check must not be
locked. If a volume you’re about to scan is locked, you’ll receive this message:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you
like to schedule this volume to be checked
the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
If so, type Y and press Enter to perform a scan at the next boot of your system.
Download chkdsk
chkdsk can’t be downloaded as it’s a command available with Windows. You can use the
original installation disc to run the utility tool.
You can download Easy Recovery Essentials and open Command Prompt to run specific chkdsk
commands:
You can burn Easy Recovery Essentials to CDs, DVDs or USBs and run Command
Prompt.
If you receive the “Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.” error message
after running a check disk command, make sure you run the command with the /r parameter:
chkdsk /f
If the disk check utility must be ran on another volume, update the command with the letter of
the drive you want to run a scan for:
chkdsk D: /f
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in the use by another process. Would
you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts.
You need to type Y to make sure the utility runs at the next boot. If so, type Y, restart the
computer and let the tool to perform the scan.
If the check disk utility shows the “Cannot lock current drive.” error message, make sure the
command you’re performing has the /r option:
chkdsk /r
If this doesn’t work, try disabling System Restore for the entire session you’re trying to run a
scan and other protection software, such as: antivirus, firewall, spyware etc.
chkdsk C: /f /r /x
If the utility runs a scan at every boot without stopping, you can try a few solutions.
Before you follow the instructions below, make sure you let the scan to be 100% completed and
then restart your computer.
If the check disk runs again, even if the previous scan was 100% complete, continue with the
steps below.
Fix #1: Check if there is a scheduled scan. To do so, follow these steps:
chkntfs /x c:
Fix #2: Another option to fix this issue is to open the Registry Editor:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
4. At the BootExecute key, check the value.If the value is autocheck autochk * /., you
need to change it to autocheck autochk *
If the utility won’t finish a scan, make sure you run the command with the /r parameter, like this:
chkdsk /r
If the check disk won’t run a scan at startup after being scheduled to do so, follow any of the
following fixes.
3. Check the value for the BootExecute key.If the value is autocheck autochk * /., you
need to change it to autocheck autochk *
You can also run the sfc /scannow command and then run chkdsk /r again:
sfc /scannow
3. Press Enter
4. After the sfc process is complete, run the check disk utility.
More Information
Support Links
Easy Recovery Essentials for Windows – our repair and recovery disk.
It’s an easy-to-use and automated diagnostics disk. It’s available for Windows 8,
Windows 7 and Windows Vista. It’s also available for Windows XP and Windows
Server.
Applicable Systems