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. From there click 'Tools' and select 'Check' under the 'Error checking' section. In case you don’t have a new drive at present, you may create Disk Image, save them within your PC or external media and recover your files by using Stellar Data Recovery Professional software. 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'. After cloning, close the Drive Monitor window, click ‘Recover Data,’ and head to Step 4 to recover your files.

As with the previous command, the volume is the letter of the drive you'd like to repair. To repair errors and scan for bad sectors, type 'chkdsk 'volume': /r' and press enter. If Chkdsk is running on every startup, it means it will show you on screen during every run which drive is being checked. My votes here are GetDataBack or UFS Explorer, and probably in that order. 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. This is one of the big reasons that no competent person would recommend running chkdsk on any drive containing data you care about. 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