{"id":1847,"date":"2016-07-29T05:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2016-07-29T05:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:27:10","slug":"quickly-check-drive-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"quickly check drive status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/category\/os\/microsoft-windows\/win7\/\">Windows 7<\/a> \u2013 open the start menu, type <strong>CMD<\/strong> into the Start menu search box. When CMD appears at the top of the list, right-click and choose \u201cRun as Administrator\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the elevated command prompt, type in the following command (or better still, copy and paste): <strong>WMIC DISKDRIVE GET MODEL,STATUS<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2013 then hit Enter.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll receive and instant status report for all connected drives, including external USB drives:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/quickly-check-hard-drive-health\/?utm_source=wysija&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly+Recap+Newsletter\">https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/quickly-check-hard-drive-health\/?utm_source=wysija&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly+Recap+Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Windows 7 \u2013 open the start menu, type CMD into the Start menu search box. When CMD appears at the top of the list, right-click and choose \u201cRun as Administrator\u201d. Now, in the elevated command prompt, type in the &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=1847\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}