If you have been in the computing world for a long time, many of you will know of the MS-DOS command of chkdsk. This is a tool in MS-DOS that has been around since the early Windows 3.x days that thoroughly scans your hard drive, and can fix and report any logical file system errors. While chkdsk is running, the program can also check for physical issues, such as bad sectors, and also attempt to recover information that may be damaged associated with the bad sectors that it finds.

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