Learn how to set up a clients hard drive for proper Ubuntu Linux installation with this chapter excerpt. Guide for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8. CHKDSK is a Windows utility that can check the integrity of your hard disk and can fix various file system errors. Xp Installation No Hard Disk Found' title='Xp Installation No Hard Disk Found' />CHKDSK or chkdsk. Its recommended to use this utility when your computer shows various boot errors. The check disk utility can be run if you need a fix for the following errors The check disk utility can repair problems such as bad sectorslost clusterscross linked filesdirectory errors. Screenshots. The check disk tool can be run via Command Prompt or, if you can boot into Windows from My Computer Properties Tools depending on the Windows version you installed on your PC. The command line tool can be ran on a Windows XP computer from within the Windows XP Recovery Console The utility from within Windows XP, from My Computer and not Command Prompt This is how you start a scan with the disk utility if you can boot into Windows Vista How to run CHKDSK in Windows. This utility is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8. If you can boot into Windows, you can run the check disk utility on each hard drive or partition you have available in My Computer. If you cant boot the operating system, you can run the tool from Command Prompt either by booting your computer into the Recovery Mode or by using the original installation disc to run Command Prompt. CHKDSK in Windows XPIf you can boot into Windows XP, you can run the utility either from the Command Prompt or from My Computer. From Command Prompt. If you cant boot into Windows XP to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials our recovery disk for Windows XP and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn Easy. RE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. To run the utility from the Command Prompt, follow these steps Boot your computer. Go to Start. Click Run. Type cmd in the box. Press Enter. You can now type chkdsk to open the utility in a read only mode. Press Enter. To repair errors, follow these instructions. To repair errors without scanning for any bad sectors, type chkdsk volume f and press Enter, where volume is the letter of the drive youd like to run a scan for, e. C or D Example of a command you need to type if your volume is C chkdsk C f. To repair errors and scan for bad sectors, type chkdsk volume r and press Enter, where volume is the letter of the drive youd like to repair, e. C or D Example of command you need to type if the volume you want to scan is D chkdsk D r. From My Computer. If you cant boot into Windows XP to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials our recovery disk for Windows XP and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn Easy. RE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. To run CHKDSK from within Windows XP, but without Command Prompt, follow these steps Boot your computer. Go to on My Computer double click on the iconRight click on the hard disk youd like to run the utility on. Click Properties. Click Tools. At the Error checking tab, select Check Now. To run the utility in the read only mode, simply click Start. To repair errors, follow these instructions. To repair errors without scanning for bad sectors, select the Automatically fix file system errors box and click Start. Create A Personalized Boot Logo Screen Using XP Disk Cleanup Utility Using Disk Defragmenter Utility Common Solutions Tips and Solutions Arranged by XP Control. To repair errors and scan for bad sectors, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors box and click Start. Once finished, the utility will notify you if the scan reported errors Errors were found and fixed. No errors were found. From the installation disc. If you dont have the installation disc to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials our recovery disk for Windows XP and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn Easy. RE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. If you cant boot into Windows XP to run the utility use your original Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to open Recovery Console. To do so, follow these steps Insert the installation CD in the disk tray. Restart your computer to boot from the CDAt the Press any key message, press any key to make sure you boot from the CDAt the Windows Options menu, press R to open Recovery Console. Enter the Administrator password. When Command Prompt appears on your screen, type the command you need. C rwhere C is the letter of the drive where Windows is installed and the r parameter will try to repair errors and scan for bad sectors. CHKDSK in Windows Vista. To run this utility on Windows Vista computer, you can choose any of the following methods From Command Prompt, if you can boot into Windows Vista. From My Computer. From the Recovery Console of your original installationdisk. From Command Prompt. If you cant boot into Windows Vista to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials our recovery disk for Windows Vista and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn Easy. RE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. If you can boot into your operating system, run Command Prompt Open Windows Vista. Go to Start All Programs Accessories Command Prompt or in the search box type Command Prompt and double click the Command Prompt item available in the search results list. When Command Prompt launches, type the command. C r. If Windows Vista is installed on another drive thats not labeled as C, replace C with the letter of your hard disk. D r. Press Enter. If Command Prompt shows errors, try to run the command again until it shows no errors. From My Computer. If you cant boot into Windows Vista to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials our recovery disk for Windows Vista and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn Easy. RE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. You can also run the utility by going to Computer My Computer Click the Start button. Go to Computer. Right click on the drive you want check. Click Properties. At the Tools tab, under the Error checking section, click Check Now. If prompted, enter the Administrator password. You can now run the disk check tool. Click Start. Dont use the computer until the disk check is done. It may take several minutes depending on the hard disk size. From the installation disc. If you dont have the installation disc to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials our recovery disk for Windows Vista and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn Easy. RE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. If you cant boot into Windows Vista, use the original installation disc to open Command Prompt the Recovery Console and run the commands you need Insert the install disc and restart your computer. Press any key when the message appear to boot from the disk. Click Repair your computer. Select Command Prompt. Enter the Administrator password, if prompted. When Command Prompt appears, type the command. C is your hard disk drives letter can be different from C used here. Press Enter. CHKDSK in Windows 7. The steps to run this utility in Windows 7 are similar to those of Windows Vista. From Command Prompt. If you cant boot into Windows 7 to run chkdsk, download Easy Recovery Essentials our recovery disk for Windows 7 and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn Easy. RE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. If you can boot into Windows 7, run the utility from Command Prompt directly Click Start. Type cmd at the Search program and files search box. Right click on cmd. Click Run as Administrator. Type in your Administrator password. When cmd. exe opens, type the command. Press Enter. You can run the tool with more parameters, like this. Creating A Primary Partition In Unallocated Space. Creating A Primary Partition In Unallocated Space. In a previous section, Reassigning Drive Letters, I made. CD drive letters so they wouldnt. Those modifications are still in place. Now that the CD. drive letters have been changed lets make some changes to. Disk 0 that currently contains both the C partition where. XP is installed and another area with 2. GB of. Unallocated space. Alien Vs Predator 2 Crack Crack Lyrics. By default, most applications like to. C Program Files folder. Since I. sized the C partition to 5. GB and XP alone uses. Its time for another. The process of creating a new partition. Unallocated space in the graphical section of the. Then either go to the menu and select Action All. Tasks New Partition. Unallocated. space in the graphical display and select New Partition. In Fig. 0. 1 I used the latter method. Fig. 0. 1The Welcome to the New Partition Wizard. Fig. 0. 2 will open and provide some basic information about. Wizard. Fig. 0. 2The first item on the agenda is to select. Because Im creating a. Primary and Extended partition. The Logical. choice is grayed out because no Extended partition exists. Extended. partition. Ive included two screen captures Figs. Description area is available that describes. Primary and Extended partitions. Fig. 0. 3A question thats often asked is why one. Extended partition rather than a. Primary partition. Truthfully, I dont have a technical. Im sure Ill hear from many users with the technical. Primary partitions. If you do want more than four. Extended partition as is. Description section of Fig. Functionally, Ive never found there to be any difference in. Primary partitions where that isnt. Extended partition. For this example I. Primary partition. Fig. 0. 4Once the partition type has been selected. The minimum and. maximum size values are shown Fig. Its worth. noting that the New Partition Wizard works in megabytes MB. GB so adjust your thinking. Entering a decimal point will return an error. Fig. 0. 5Disk Management automatically offers to. Use the drop down selector to choose a different letter. If. youre using the NTFS file system the Mount option will be. Mounted drives are beyond the scope of this. Help section of Microsoft Management. Console provides information on their use. If you find the. use of drive letters to be restrictive in the type of system. NTFS drives. The option is also available not to specify any drive letter. Fig. 0. 6The final step is to select the. Its not absolutely. If so, select. the first option. If the partition is formatted at this time. Unless you have a specific reason. FAT3. 2 or change the allocation unit the. Supply a label for the volume now. I used Programs or just accept the default. If you want to. save some time use the quick format option. Fig. 0. 7Review the selected settings Fig. Finish button. The process will begin. Fig. 0. 8As Fig. 0. Programs has been created and added to Disk Management. D and is formatted with the NTFS file. The Unallocated space has been reduced to 1. GB. as a result of adding the new partition. Fig. 0. 9Next Creating An Extended.