HDD check?

Dell performed an online diagnostics of my machine and results showed I had a corrupted C active partition.

Is there a Linux/Ubuntu like tool to pick any bad sectors, (IF any) before the drive dies and lose my data?

Thanks.

chkdsk /r is an excellent tool to re-allot bad sectors, but back up your data first. Or a Seatools for DOS boot disk will do it too. And it may be that the drive is failing and re-allotment will not help.

Do I run chkdsk /r in command prompt?

Thanks and apologize for my ignorance.

Yes. It will prompt for a reboot. But back up data first, as it is destructive.

Thanks I shall. Will it post a log if yes where?

It writes a log, I believe it is in events viewer. A better way to do it is from a WinPE or WinRE boot disk, where you can observe its progress at leisure.

Also, I would recommend examining the SMART attributes. You can do that with GSmartControl, Speccy, Defraggler, etc. That's one thing chkdsk doesn't tell you.

Where in Event viewer would it be located?

Thanks.

Performed chkdsk /r boot time.........cant locate its log.

Deraggler advanced displays no errors?

Thanks.

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If there are no SMART attribute errors, the next step is to run a long self-test on the drive. This can be done by GSmartControl or Seatools from within Windows.

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
148736 file records processed. File verification completed.
1186 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 2 EA records processed. 47 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
181780 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
148736 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 51 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 51 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 51 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
16523 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37117456 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
148720 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
20204415 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

104755199 KB total disk space.
23635008 KB in 71367 files.
47300 KB in 16524 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
255231 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
80817660 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
26188799 total allocation units on disk.
20204415 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 45 02 00 5e 57 01 00 5d 95 02 00 00 00 00 00 .E..^W..].......
a7 00 00 00 2f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..../...........
20 8c 2d 00 50 01 2c 00 50 01 2c 00 00 00 2c 00 .-.P.,.P.,...,.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.