![]() ![]() Hard disks being an essential part of any computer, it is somehow strange that Microsoft has not developed solutions to make it easier for users to know, rapidly, the health of their drives. It is also possible to use Command Prompt and type the command “wmic disk drive get status”, which is just one of a series of commands that give users information about their drives. The CHKDSK Tool is the easiest to use: you right click on the drive you want to check, choose Properties, then Tools and click on Check under Error Checking. ![]() In fact, there are multiple built-in tools, from the CHKDSK Tool to the Performance Monitor or the Command Prompt, but they all need to be initiated by the user. The information now made available by Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Blog confirms Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20226 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel, a version including storage health monitoring to protect user data, something that Windows has offered for a long time but is only accessible if you go “under the hood”. The new feature, present in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 2022, will detect hardware abnormalities for NVMe SSDs. Windows 10 will get storage health monitoring to protect user data.
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