Wednesday, May 06, 2026

Quick Check of Hard Disk Drive

The data drive for personal and work files began to have some picture files unable to be read. I copied all files to another drive. Then I did a couple quick disk checks in MS Windows 10, and suprisingly no errors were found. A thorough test of the disk would do repeated reads and writes across the entire disk.

 

Run PowerShell as admin and use the deprecated wmic command:


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Run cmd as admin and use chkdsk: