My question is that I have windows XP professional edition. I want to scan my computer to get rid form the error and different other issues but when I want to search the scan disk option of the computer then I cannot access to it where is it. I find every where scan disk option but I cannot find it. Please help me in finding is issue so that can possible the I scan my computer errors and my computer will work properly.
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SCANDSIK on Windows XP
This utility is used to scan for find errors and attempt to fix them. To scan your computer disk follow the steps below:
1. Click on Start Menu and select My Computer.
2. Right click on the disk drive you want to scan and select Properties.
3. Click on Tools. You will find Disk Defragment, Check Now etc.
4. Click on Check Now in the error Error Checking Section. Check the boxes Automatically Fix and Attempt Recovery of bad sectors.
5. Click Start. Scandisk takes a very long time to run.
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Hello Kingstone,
As an XP user you can’t really find the Scan disk word unlike Windows 95/98/ME that you can locate easily because Scan Disk in XP now is called Check Disk or ( Scan Disk = Check Disk in XP). I hope you may not wonder that there is big difference now in performing that task because it need to restart after Check Disk display summary of its activities. Here are following guide of Check Disk.
1. Locate My Computer on your desktop or in start menu.
2. Right click on the hard disk drive you want to have Check Disk and choose Properties then click Tools Tab.
3. Under a Tools tab find the error checking and click check now.
4. Another box appears the Check disk just check both box then click start.
5. A message appear that disk check utility need exclusive access to some Windows file on the disk just try to
restart your system to be able to proceed Check Disk.
6. You may see check disk screen after system restarted and process will take a long time just finish it to
have a successful scan of your disk and to know file system status.