I'm running a chkdsk /r against a disk that I know has issues so I can then get a WIM of it before wiping and sending off for RMA. I've already copied out everything I think I need, but I'm trying to ...

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I ran chkdsk /r last night on my primary HDD and it reported and allegedly "recovered" (I think) 4 bad sectors. What does that mean and is there any way I can tell exactly what it did and did not do?

CHKDSK is a command-line utility that lets you find the bad sectors on a volume and verify the integrity of system files stored on the drive. It is used regularly by many Windows users to get the ...