error checking or disc check

Hello
Win 7 Home Premium, i5, 1T msie 9.

I checked off both boxes which were; automatically fix file system errors, and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.

I tried to keep an eye open at the end of this 3 hour scan, so I could see results but all seemed to vanish.
How should I interpret this?

Is it an assumption that it is ok or it would have reported an issue or is there a place I must check to find out?
I went to event viewer but could not find anything, or did not know where to look.
I am not techy so if it is good that it just disappeared with no errors to report, I will be ok with that.
Thank you
Peter

 

Hello and thank you for replying.
Long story short, Dell replaced a hard drive which had SMART with one that did not. I did not know it so when I ran their test of my hard drive,it reported that SMART was not able to run.
I did not understand so called them and they were confused - I had to Google the issue to find out about my replaced drive being a cheaper one.
They are also having trouble with their Dell Support center downloader so I used what you taught me and downloaded the Support Center to the laptop's cd-rw then installed the program to the destop with that disc.
I wanted to check on the hard drive so ran error checking, but as I said it vanished at the end.
I ran F12 diagnostic which said all is ok.
I will now try to find the results of the error check and be back.
Thanx again. Gee, do you think I would buy Dell again??
Peter

 

>>Will do and thank you
Peter

 

I tried to edit but just too late. I found that besides some items being removed there were "no problems".
So, besides verifying the scan I found three new helpful concepts thanx to you both.
Peter
wininit was a bit tricky :wave

 

I had found this the other day and thought it might be useful to see chkdsk results without going into event viewer. I haven't experimented with the command to limit by date but if you don't mind scrolling through the window it does show the results of your previous chkdsks in a familiar looking format.

http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=441

Basically start the power shell and past in

 

>>Unless there is an easier way to get to the power shell, I cannot see how it is easier than the event viewer.
I read the link well but it seems as though event viewer is the easier of the two.
Thank you for the thought.