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Which of these utilities would be the best choice for checking your hard drive for bad sectors?

A) chkdsk

B) fixmbr

C) bootrec

D) fixboot

E) The pick-up-and-shake technique isn’t working so well


The answer: A) chkdsk

The chkdsk command can not only check and fix the logical file system (/f), but it can also check for bad sectors with the /r switch.

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