A rundown on the chkdsk utility in Windows 11 The utility chkdsk, short for “check disk,” will scan the file system and file system metadata of a hard drive for logical and physical errors.

If you see Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected error while running the CHKDSK function on a drive, follow this guide to fix it.

I haven't run checkdisk / scandisk on either of my Vista machines before, wondering how to go about it and what switches to include. I want to run Diskeeper 2010 Pro Premier defragger shortly ...

You shouldn't run into an issue with the Check Desk tool on Windows 10 anymore.