Microsoft can't do anything to magically make hard drives stop failing when parts go bad, but the Redmond outfit is rolling out a new NTFS health model for Windows 8 with a redesigned CHKDSK tool for ...

Microsoft explained this week that it has updated its venerable CHKDSK utility for Windows 8 such that you won't really need to use it anymore. In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, CHKDSK is still ...

Every time Microsoft has released a new version of Windows, it has updated CHKDSK, even if it went unnoticed. Each time, CHKDSK became faster, however, with hard disk sizes and file counts doubling ...

In a recent post on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Senior Program Manager, Windows Core Storage and File Systems, Kiran Bangalore, discusses a new NTFS health model and redesigned chkdsk (check disk) ...

Follow the below-listed steps. 1] Type “Event Viewer” in the Windows search box and click on the app to launch it. 2] In the Event Viewer app, expand the “Windows Logs” section in the left panel. 3] ...

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