{"id":483,"date":"2015-11-12T06:58:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T06:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=483"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:39:50","slug":"how-to-extract-the-check-disk-chkdsk-logs-from-event-viewer-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-extract-the-check-disk-chkdsk-logs-from-event-viewer-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Extract The Check Disk (CHKDSK) Logs From Event Viewer on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checkdisk (CHKDSK) is great for checking a hard drive in your computer but what if you want to see the results after the computer has rebooted. \u00a0This is even more important when you schedule a checkdisk to run remotely and you want to see the results. \u00a0So where are the check disk logs located?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CHKDSK-Logs-Windows-Event-Viewer.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-484\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CHKDSK-Logs-Windows-Event-Viewer.png\" alt=\"CHKDSK Logs Windows Event Viewer\" width=\"682\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow these steps to view the Check Disk (CHKDSK) results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Control Panel<\/li>\n<li>Open Administrative Tools<\/li>\n<li>Select Event Viewer.<\/li>\n<li>In the Event Viewer\u00a0expand the Windows Logs<\/li>\n<li>Select the Application log.<\/li>\n<li>Right Click the Application log and select Find<\/li>\n<li>Type wininit in the box and click Find Next<\/li>\n<li>In the middle pane\u00a0click the Source\/wininit line that is found.<\/li>\n<li>In the south pane, you will see the complete log for the latest Check Disk (CHKDSK).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checkdisk (CHKDSK) is great for checking a hard drive in your computer but what if you want to see the results after the computer has rebooted. \u00a0This is even more important when you schedule a checkdisk to run remotely and you want to see the results. \u00a0So where are the check disk logs located? Follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[256],"article-tag":[427,428,429],"class_list":["post-483","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-uncategorized","article-tag-chkdsk-logs-windows-event-viewer","article-tag-where-are-the-checkdisk-logs","article-tag-where-are-the-chkdsk-logs"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":117,"sum_votes":522},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}