Windows automatically
runs Check Disk when it notices a problem with a file system.
First,
run the Check Disk utility to scan the integrity of your file system and hard disk.
Not exact matches
These tasks include things like
checking to see if your hard drive needs defragmenting,
running system diagnostics,
checking for
disk volume errors, and more.
You can
check for yourself by opening up
Disk Defragmenter and seeing the schedule there, as well as the last
run and fragmentation levels.
Check if you have sufficient
disk space on the drive / s because if you
run out of available space, System Restore will just stop monitoring your system.
One thing to point out in my experience with this method is when you first boot into Windows 7,
Check Disk runs, then reboots and you need to choose the Windows 7 option again from the bootloader.
The
Disk Utility performs a «fsck» (file system
check) operation, so you don't need to
run the fsck command manually.
The
Check Disk utility, also known as chkdsk (since that's the command you use to
run it) scans through your entire hard drive to find and fix problems.
The
disk is periodically
checked for file system errors, bad sectors, lost clusters, etc, during Automatic Maintenance and you now no longer need to really go and
run it if you are
running Windows 10.