From time to time, it is a good practice to check your hard drive (hard disk) for errors using a tool built into Windows called CHKDSK (for Check Disk). It is important that you keep a watch on your ...

You may sometimes see a message – Windows found errors on this drive that need to be repaired. If you see it, you may want to run a scan manually. Earlier, you had ...

Seagate on Thursday issued a firmware update which the company said should solve a problem it has been having with some of its disk drives. The problem came to light on .came to light on Tuesday when ...

Physical damage as well as routine wear and tear can undermine the integrity of your hard disk drive, making areas of the disk unreadable and causing errors. You could lose valuable business data as a ...

Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data. How you go about performing a disk check on a hard drive has changed somewhat with the ...

The next time you are at a yard sale and want to buy a used computer, a quick check of the Event Viewer can tip you off to potential problems. The Event viewer logs potential errors like hard drive ...

TL;DR - every external HDD gets "the volume /dev/rdisk[X]s1 [with UUID etc] was found to be corrupt and needs to be repaired" (it doesn't repair it). Even though those disks were fully erased and ...