Check Your Hard Drive for Errors

To keep your system running smoothly, you should periodically check your hard drive for errors and fix any errors that come up.

Because hard drive errors such as bad sectors can cause files to become corrupted, which may prevent you from running a program or opening a document, you can use the Check Disk program to look for and fix hard drive errors.

Check Your Hard Drive for Errors

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001 On the Start screen, tap Desktop and then tap the File Explorer button ().

File Explorer opens.

Tap Computer.

Tap the hard drive ...

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