A Quick and Easy Way to Check Your Hard Drive on Windows 10 or Windows 11
Today we are going to show you a quick and easy way to check your hard drive(s) any time you like – and you can do it in less than one minute.
Type COMMAND in the taskbar search. When you see “Command Prompt” appear in the search results, press “Enter” or click “Open”
In the Command Prompt window, type the following command (exactly as shown) at the prompt >.
WMIC DISKDRIVE GET STATUS
and press Enter
Above: Windows 10
Above: Windows 11
Almost immediately, you’ll see the status of your Windows drive and for most of you, that is drive C:\.
As you can see, my hard drive is OK.
If you see something other than OK, it may mean Windows is having problems retrieving the S.M.A.R.T. data from your drive(s). If any problems are detected, they will be shown in the Command Prompt window.
Wow that was easy and the results I am happy with. I have been worried about mine lately. Thanks for the quick tip.
As you said – checking was ‘Quick & Easy’ !
BUT:- I just have one Hard Drive – a Solid State Drive that I installed some time ago to replace the old HDD; — but the results of the check showed 6 ‘OK’s’ ?!?!?
I do not understand !
David.
Hi David, I can’t tell you why. I tested it on an SSD and an HDD and only got one OK.
I got 3 OK’s!
I got 6 OK’s. And mt computer takes forever to “lock and load” every morning