Thursday 2 January 2014

To Read chkdsk Results Log Directly in Event Viewer

NOTE: You must be logged in as administrator to be able to open Event Viewer.

1.If you have not already, you will need to have ran Check Disk (chkdsk) in Vista/Windows 7 or Windows 8 prior before it will be in the Event Viewer System log.

2.Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run dialog, type eventvwr.msc, and press Enter.

3.If prompted by UAC, then click Yes on (Windows 7/8) or Continue on (Vista).


4.In the left pane of Event Viewer, double click on Windows Logs to expand it, then right click on Application and click on Find. Check Disk (chkdsk) - Read Event Viewer Log

5.Copy and paste Chkdsk into the line, and click on Find Next.
NOTE: You can continue to click on Find Next to search for other older application logs (if available) for Check Disk (chkdsk) to see them as well.

6.You will now see the system log for the scan results of Check Disk (chkdsk).
NOTE: The log will have the Chkdsk tag if Check Disk is ran only from within Windows.




7.Go back to the top of the log file list in the middle pane of Event Viewer, then copy and paste Wininit into the line, and click on Find Next.
NOTE: You can continue to click on Find Next to search for other older application logs (if available) for Check Disk (chkdsk) to see them as well.

8.You will now see the system log for the scan results of Check Disk (Wininit).
NOTE: The log will have the Wininit tag if the computer has to restart to run Check Disk at startup instead of within Windows.

9. When finished searching for Check Disk (chkdsk) application logs, you can close the Find window.

10. When finished, you can close Event Viewer.

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