Recovery Console--Chkdsk--harddrive failure

[Bob Tyrka]

I'm concerned that my heavily used old harddrive will give up the ghost
soon. I understand that a study made by Google found that hard drives that
show a scan error using Scandisk (now Chkdsk, I understand) are 39 times
more likely to fail within 60 days than drives that don't show such errors.

How do I access the Recovery Console so that I can run Chkdsk?

 

[John John]

You don't have to run chkdsk from the Recovery Console. If chkdsk
cannot obtain an exclusive lock on the volume it will ask you if you
want to schedule a ckeck on the volume the next time the computer is
booted. See here for instructions on how to run it:

How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

To view the results of a boot time chkdsk, after the computer boots look
in the Event Log for Winlogon events.

John