Chkdsk (Check Disk) utility is one of the most Populaire Windows utilities. Chkdsk is the utility everyone uses to repair bad disk sectors and corrupted system files.
‘’Chkdsk’’ can be run manually from the command line and automatically, by the operating system during the boot, to check the drives that need a consistency check.
When you run Chkdsk from the command line, the disk check results will be displayed just after the utility ends scanning the disk;
The question, though, is where to find Chkdsk results after you exit the command line Window?
Find Chkdsk results in the event viewer
1. Find Chkdsk command-line results
The Chkdsk scan results are recorded in the applications event log;
- Open the event viewer;
- Click on the application log;
- On the ‘’Actions’’ panel, click on the ‘’Filter current Log…’’;
- In the Filter box, select ‘’Chkdsk’’ from the Event sources’ dropdown box;
2. Find Autochk results
Autochk.exe is the boot-time version of Chkdsk; that runs during the system boot to check drives consistency.
- Open the event viewer;
- Click on the application log;
- On the ‘’Actions’’ panel, click on ‘’Filter current Log…’’
- In the Filter box, select ‘’Wininit’’ from the Event sources’ dropdown box;
3. Simplify the search process
You can make your life easier by having the Chkdsk results available without having to do searches and filtering;
- Open the event viewer;
- Click on the application log;
- On the ‘’Actions’’ panel, click on ‘’Filter current Log…’’
- In the Filter box, select ‘’Chkdsk’’ and ‘’Wininit’’ from the Event sources’ dropdown box;
- On the Actions panel, click on ‘’Save Filter to Custom View…’’;
- Give your custom filter a name and click Ok;
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