{"id":477,"date":"2012-01-15T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:27:40","slug":"windows-chkdsk-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2012\/01\/windows-chkdsk-log\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows chkdsk Log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/event-log-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-559\" title=\"event-log-icon\" src=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/event-log-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>The Windows chkdsk log takes quite a long time to run. You&#8217;ll probably want to run it overnight. After the chkdsk runs, a summary screen appears for a while and then disappears as Windows boots up.<\/p>\n<p>To find out the results and to see if chkdsk found any errors, look in the &#8220;Event Log&#8221; and under Applications -&gt; &#8220;Wininit&#8221; you will see the chkdsk results \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/do-a-chkdsk-in-windows.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-557\" title=\"do-a-chkdsk-in-windows\" src=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/do-a-chkdsk-in-windows-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0To create a chkdsk, in &#8220;Computer&#8221;, right-click on the Disk Drive, Properties, Tools, Check.<br \/>\nTo find the &#8220;Event Viewer&#8221;, inside the Control Panel is Administrative Tools -&gt; Event Viewer<br \/>\nRunning a chkdsk can solve many problems such as when a file\/folder cannot be removed, or if a program can\/can&#8217;t be (un)installed. In my case it prevented Vista SP2 from being installed.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/forum\/2172-63-win7-chkdsk-file-location\">http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/forum\/2172-63-win7-chkdsk-file-location<\/a><br \/>\n( event viewer, applications, under &#8220;wininit )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows chkdsk log takes quite a long time to run. You&#8217;ll probably want to run it overnight. After the chkdsk runs, a summary screen appears for a while and then disappears as Windows boots up. To find out the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2012\/01\/windows-chkdsk-log\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[46,40,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}