

The chkdsk utility must be run from an administrator command prompt to perform its work. Windows provides a utility tool known as chkdsk that can correct most errors on a storage disk.

The same holds true for Source and Target disks during Recovery operations. What is the cause of such behavior? These symptoms are typical when corruption exists on the selected Backup Source disk, either in the filesystem itself, or what is known as a “bad sector” (physical damage) on the disk. You find that your system disk is not selectable or displays a red X next to it.Your task fails to run, possibly just stopping completely or displaying an error message stating that the backup cannot complete due to corruption.(Possible disk corruption causing Sector by Sector backup to be created) After the task completes you discover that the size of the backup is bigger than the total amount of data on the disk.

You set out to create a backup image of your Windows Operating System disk. Imaging you’ve just purchased Acronis True Image. The Windows DISKPART utility is also discussed here in part. A How To on using Windows chkdsk utility to address storage disk corruption.
