Discovering and correcting errors of hard disk
For performing this activity, double click on ‘Computer’ icon at desktop or by clicking on start button and then clicking on ‘Computer’. After this, right click on C drive and click on ‘Properties’. After this dialog box of ‘Local Disk (C:) Properties’ will appear. A screenshot showing Properties of C drive is given below:
In properties dialog box, click on the ‘Tools’ option. After clicking on tool sheet option, a tool sheet will appear as shown in below:
Now in the tool sheet click on ‘Check now’ option, a ‘Check Disk Local Disk (C:)’dialog box will appear as shown below:
Click on check box of ‘Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors’ option and then click on ‘Start’ option. After clicking on start option system takes approximately one hour for checking hard disk. It depends on the data stored in the disk. No of the errors were discovered.