User's Manual

How to Check Your Drives

1. To launch the TuneUp Disk Doctor tool, in the Start Center under the Fix problems category, select All

functions followed by Check Hard Disks for Errors.

2. Select which drives are to be checked by TuneUp Disk Doctor

3. Select Normal analysis or Thorough analysis

As the Thorough analysis can take quite some time for larger drives, a Normal analysis of the selected

drives is usually sufficient. This usually only takes 1-2 minutes.

However, if errors occur on your system or Windows reports problems with reading or writing data, a

Thorough analysis is recommended.

For more information on the analysis procedure, see under: Normal vs. Thorough Analysis, p. 72

4. Click Next to start the analysis.

During the analysis, TuneUp Disk Doctor provides you with a graphical display of the progress. The boxes

displayed represent the space usage of the drive being examined.

5. If no errors have been found, click Finish to exit the tool.

In some cases it is necessary to restart your computer in order to successfully complete the analysis or

repair process. This can happen, for example, when active programs or Windows itself are using the

selected drive and thus prevent TuneUp Disk Doctor from having exclusive access.

If a system restart is necessary, TuneUp Disk Doctor will show you a corresponding message. You can

then decide if the necessary restart should be performed immediately or if you would like to restart the

system yourself at a later time.