The disk error checking Wizard should start after you click on the button. To initiate the disk check process, click on the “Check now.” button (Windows 7) or the “Check” button (Windows 8). The “Properties” Window will then appear, from here, go to the tab labeled “Tools” and you’ll see three system utilities “Error checking, Defragmentation and Backup ” where “Error checking” is listed first (Windows 7) or two options “Error checking or Optimize and Defragment drive” (Windows 8). Once the right-click menu appears, click on “Properties”. Once the Windows Explorer/File Explorer Window appears, click on “Computer” from the left side pane then right click or press and hold the drive which you want to check for any errors. Launching the Disk Check Toolįirst, you need to launch Windows Explorer (Windows 7) or File Explorer (Windows 8). This means that you need to be logged is as an “Administrator” by now. It is therefore important that you know how to use this tool so you can do a disk check regularly and fix issues that keeps plaguing your machine more often.īefore exploring the Disk Check Utility you need to take note that only an administrator account can perform disk scans. The files that are checked and fixed by the Disk Check Utility on Windows commonly causes system problems which can become more serious if not addressed right away. Disk errors are common to ageing computers especially the ones that lack maintenance but luckily, Windows has a disk checking tool included on its set of system utilities which is capable of scanning your hard disk partitions from bad and lost sectors and as well as corrupted files.
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