The utility will notify you if the scan finds any errors or not. To repair errors without scanning for bad sectors, select the 'Automatically fix file system errors' box and to repair errors and scan for bad sectors, select the 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors' box. I did it in the first stage, when searching for errors, so i hope it was pretty safe. From there click 'Tools' and select 'Check' under the 'Error checking' section. To obtain the PID, open the Task Manager and look at CHKDSK -> right click - Go to details To run an elevated cmd window, go to taskbar, search -> cmd (or command prompt) - right click - Run as administrator. To run Chkdsk from within Windows, but without Command Prompt, you need to go to on 'This PC', right-click on the hard disk you'd like to run the utility on and then click 'properties'. As with the previous command, the volume is the letter of the drive you'd like to repair. Method 2: Run the CHKDSK utility from an elevated Command Prompt. To repair errors and scan for bad sectors, type 'chkdsk 'volume': /r' and press enter.

To repair errors without scanning for any bad sectors, type 'chkdsk volume :/r' and press enter, where 'volume' is the letter of the drive you'd like to scan, whether it's C or D, or otherwise. Step four: Things begin to get a little more technical here, but you'll need to type 'chkdsk' followed by a specific command to repair any errors you may encounter.

Running chkdsk on windows 10