If you’re concerned about possible errors with your hard drives on your Windows 11 PC, today we will show you how to run a check disk scan on the drive. We will be doing this through File Explorer in case you have multiple drives in your computer and you want to make sure you are running the built-in Windows troubleshooter on the correct drive.
First, right-click on the Start button, typically found at the bottom of the screen, and click on File Explorer.
Select This PC on the left side of File Explorer. (Need some blurring/cropping here of the stuff In the middle of the file explorer window)
Then, right-click on the drive you’d like to check under Devices and Drives and select Properties.
Select the Tools tab. Under Error checking, click on Check.
You may receive a message that states “You don’t need to scan this drive. We haven’t found any errors on this drive. You can still scan the drive for errors if you want.” You can still proceed to Scan Drive to continue. This process may take a bit of time to complete but should update you as it goes.
Once completed, depending on what happens with the scan, two outcomes will occur:
a) If no errors were found, you’ll see this message: “Your drive was successfully scanned. Windows successfully scanned the drive. No errors were found.”
b) If errors were found, you’ll see this message instead: “Restart your computer to repair file system. You can restart right away or schedule the error fixing on the next restart.”
If it does find errors, this may take some time once it starts. Do not interrupt the process. This could cause damage that could result in an unbootable drive and could require reinstallation of Windows.
