Disk Error Checking: How to run CHKDSK in Windows 11

Checking your hard disk, every once in a while for errors, usually caused due to improper or sudden shutdowns, corrupted software, metadata corruption, etc., is always a good practice as this can help solve some computer problems and improve the performance of your Windows computer.

At times you may see a message – Windows found errors on this drive that need to be repaired. If you see it, you may want to manually run a scan. Earlier you had to schedule Disk Error Checking for the system drive and for drives which had files or processes or folders opened. In Windows 10/8, error checking starts right away, even on the system drive – and it longer needs to be scheduled at start-up.

[chiria]

Thank you but your music is way too loud. As we get older it is much easier to concentrate on one thing at a time.

[prunabluepepper]

Interesting part starts at 1:40 and ends at 2:20.

[clayclay]

Mine showed this
"Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges or
the disk may be locked by another process.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode
and make sure the disk is unlocked."

[sreejithasok]

Mine is showing error checking. 2 hours 30 minutes left and it increased to 2 hour 35 minutes