Is it necessary to do a CHKDSK?

G

Guest

If you get a BSOD, is it necessary to do a chkdsk? What would be the
consequence of not doing a chkdsk?
 
O

Onsokumaru

If you get a BSOD, is it necessary to do a chkdsk?
No

What would be the
consequence of not doing a chkdsk?

Any errors your file system has may snowball over time until there are
serious errors and/or corruption occurs, so, for example the OS won't load,
or some program may crash consistently because one of it's DLL's is damaged.

You can run chkdsk from a command prompt and it will notify you if you have
any errors that need fixing. Typing chkdsk will run in read-only mode, so it
won't do any harm.

Running chkdsk after a crash isn't a bad idea, as some file/file system
corruption may occur as a result of the crash.
 
G

Gerry

It would depend on the nature of the BSOD. What is the Stop Error
message?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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