Man kan køre chkdsk fra en admin commando prompt/powershell med følgende parameter for at scanne og reparere for bad blocks / bad sectors, denne kørsel vil forsøge at flytte beskadiget data til andre områder, og det kan gøre en disk læselig, og også gøre det muligt at kopiere (ghoste) disken.
Parameter: chkdsk x: /F /R
x = drev bogstav, vælg system drev her.
Liste over andre parametre:
CHKDSK [volumepath]filename [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]
The options and switches for Check Disk are used as follows:
volume Sets the volume to work with
path/filename Specifies files to check for fragmentation (FAT16 and FAT32 only)
/F Fixes errors on the disk
/V Displays the full path and name of every file on the disk (FAT16 and FAT32); displays cleanup messages if any (NTFS)
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F)
/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary (implies /F)
/I Performs a minimum check of index entries (NTFS only)
/C Skips checking of cycles within the folder structure (NTFS only)
/L:size Sets the log file size (NTFS only)
/B Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume (NTFS only; implies /R)
