Scandisk is a windows program which fixes a number of errors that can occur whilst running windows. These include problems with bad sectors on the hard drive, invalid filenames and wrong file sizes. It should be used if you are experiencing software or hardware problems.
If the drive you want to scan is an active windows partition, you will have to restart the computer before it is scanned. It is a good idea to run scandisk before running Disk Defragmenter.
Select Start and Run.
Type in 'chkdsk /f C:' and press OK.
Repeat the process for other partitions by replacing the drive letter.
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