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So, within days of using Windows 7 Ultimate, I suffered a bluescreen event (BSOD) and had Windows prompt a chkdsk run by itself. I was curious to see the results of the disk check, but if you have seen one of those occur, you'll know that the results scroll by too fast for you to read. I went to good old Google and within short order, I discovered that instructions on the internet are often incomplete (with mine being the exception, of course. :D)
The first site I found online told me to check the built-in Windows Event Viewer tool (right after the chkdsk was done) which is accessible on Vista or Windows 7 by "event viewer" in the search panel. I was told to search for an event prompted by Winlogon (as the source) and to go with the most recent entry. Clearly, I was doing my search a couple of days after the event and I didn't want to wade through score of entries in the event viewer.
The next hit online was more forthcoming and told me that I was looking for an entry from Winlogon as the source and the Event ID of 1001. Well, that was correct, but oddly enough, there was another entry called Wininit that contained the results I was searching for! So, to make this long story short, if you are looking for your chkdsk results, do the following:


And that's that! You're welcome. :)
This blog was started as a labor of love and I started it primarily to edutain (an amalgam of education and entertainment) my readers who seek plain Jane answers to common or uncommon problems with technology used in their day-to-day lives. :) Suggestions?
ARC
December 15th, 2009 at 19:27
Thanks so much for this info. It was exactly what I was looking for!