Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

CHKDSK or Check Disk is a utility built inside the Windows operating systems that work to maintain the integrity of the disk connected to a computer. It can be launched both via Graphical User ...

Apple's Disk Utility has always checked the health of volume structures, but in Lion it will verify the structure of the partition tables as well. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...

CHKDSK is a command-line utility that lets you find the bad sectors on a volume and verify the integrity of system files stored on the drive. It is used regularly by many Windows users to get the ...

As we reported earlier, many people (especially MacBook Pro owners) are finding that although, according to the descriptions at Apple's Web site, their computer should be eligible for the recently ...

Any day now, the folks who bought new PCs that qualified for free Windows Vista upgrades through Microsoft's Express Upgrade program will begin receiving their disks. Others are buying shrink-wrapped ...

Ran into a brick wall on this one. Trying to use the disk builtin check with icinga2 for my linux boxes, but for anything other than the '/' partition, it tells me that the disk in question is "not ...