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A lot of you moved up from Windows 98 or Windows ME and have been looking for the scandisk program.
What happened to scandisk? It's not there in Windows XP! Windows XP comes from the Windows NT/Windows 2000 family, and they never had scandisk.
Windows XP uses a program called chkdsk. You can run chkdsk from the command prompt.
Just open a command prompt and type chkdsk c:.
When you run the chkdsk c: command the chkdsk program will check for errors.
If you want chkdsk to fix disk errors, type the command: chkdsk c: /f (the /f stands for "fix").
If the disk is in use, it'll give you the opportunity to run chkdsk when the machine restarts.
If you want to check drives other than the C: drive, just replace c: with the other drive letter.