We’ve all been there – one day your computer is working fine, the next day it blue screens with those dreaded words ‘UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME’. How inconvenient. With that said, you can turn an inconvenience into a convenience using preventive hard disk maintenance.
To run check disk on your hard drive and correct any structure errors, you do the following:
- Open a command prompt (Start > Run > type CMD > click OK)
- At the command prompt, type: chkdsk C: /F
- It will ask if you want to schedule the scan for the next reboot, type Y and hit enter.
- Reboot and the machine will now repair the disk errors.
Do this once a week and your disk is sure to remain in good health. If you’re lazy or you simply forget, try scheduling it as a task.