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Scandisk

Scandisk is a Microsoft utility that was purchased originally from Norton which is now Symantec. Scandisk is designed to check the integrity of a computer hard disk drive to verify that there are no significant issues which could cause issues with your computer data.

How to Run Scandisk

Keep in mind that if Windows 2000 and XP is a networking operating system and it's possible that the privileges to run scandisk may have revoked by the system administrator. To run Scandisk we recommend you follow the recommend steps.

• Double-click My Computer
• Highlight a local hard disk drive by clicking on it once.
• Right click the highlighted local drive
• Click properties
• Click the tools tab and click check now to check the drive for errors.  Do not click on the box to check for bad sectors.
• The computer will need to restart in order to run scandisk in a safe mode. However you do not have to restart it right then unless you believe there might some issues.

The next time your computer boots, you will see a blue screen.  The output on the screen will alert you to the Scandisk status.  No action is required on your part.  The computer will reboot automatically.

While this utility helps to maintain the integrity of your hard disk, it is no substitute for backing up your data.  Please make sure you have a well planned and executed backup plan for your data where that data is on removable, or external hard drive, or is backed up to other media such as CD's, DVD's or online offsite storage.

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