Checking the hard drive with the command line
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:28 am
Hard Disk Problems
Problems are of various kinds and appear for various reasons, but most often they are due to the fact that the disk is outdated or has received physical damage. To understand exactly what happened to him and not to be afraid for the data on him, it is worth checking, and this can be done in various ways. Previously, we have already considered what are the differences between HDD and SSD, but now I will describe the biggest difference that can affect the problems of these disks.
HDD - works on magnetic disks and is highly susceptible to magnetic influence and God forbid to drop it – this can lead to a complete breakdown of the disk.
SSD - Consists of microchips of telegram data memory and is not so much affected by magnetic effects or it is not so scary to drop it.
However, although they differ even in the principle of operation, they both have the same kind of problems, which means that if they are not checked in a timely manner, this will lead to sad consequences.
Windows
An example will be shown on Windows 10. That's like Windows Os 2016;2019
There are many programs that allow you to check your hard drive, but we will use the command line for this. It is thanks to the command line that we will check the broken sectors and the performance of the HDD or SSD.
You can check the hard disk using the command line and the CHKDSK command. To begin with, open the command line, you can find it using the search and write in the cmd window that appears
In order for you to run the check, you need to run the command line on behalf of the administrator.
Problems are of various kinds and appear for various reasons, but most often they are due to the fact that the disk is outdated or has received physical damage. To understand exactly what happened to him and not to be afraid for the data on him, it is worth checking, and this can be done in various ways. Previously, we have already considered what are the differences between HDD and SSD, but now I will describe the biggest difference that can affect the problems of these disks.
HDD - works on magnetic disks and is highly susceptible to magnetic influence and God forbid to drop it – this can lead to a complete breakdown of the disk.
SSD - Consists of microchips of telegram data memory and is not so much affected by magnetic effects or it is not so scary to drop it.
However, although they differ even in the principle of operation, they both have the same kind of problems, which means that if they are not checked in a timely manner, this will lead to sad consequences.
Windows
An example will be shown on Windows 10. That's like Windows Os 2016;2019
There are many programs that allow you to check your hard drive, but we will use the command line for this. It is thanks to the command line that we will check the broken sectors and the performance of the HDD or SSD.
You can check the hard disk using the command line and the CHKDSK command. To begin with, open the command line, you can find it using the search and write in the cmd window that appears
In order for you to run the check, you need to run the command line on behalf of the administrator.