0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 W I N D O W S X P 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 CHECKING YOUR HARD DISK W/ CHKDSK Under normal conditions you should rarely have to run chkdsk on a disk that is running on the NTFS file system, but in the event you are still running FAT32 or you just want to make sure your disks are functioning correctly, do this: - click start, run, type cmd, click ok - type chkdsk , press enter chkdsk will do a basic integrity check on your drive - for a more in depth scan, type chkdsk /r instead