What is the equivalent of CHKDSK in Linux?

reno_rita

My computer has taken a dive and it will not boot up. I have reasons to believe that it is the hard drive. I would like to run CHKDSK but I cannot get the computer to boot up into Windows. My question is this: Is there a way to run CHKDSK from Ubuntu? I can boot into Ubuntu using a USB flash driver and I can mount and see the hard drive contents (and access them). I was wondering if there is any way I can get chkdsk/r to run and see what...

Originally asked by L84 on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Not per se. You can try running ntfsfix , part of NTFS-3G, but there is no proper replacement for chkdsk for NTFS drives.

Full answer by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/319926 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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