Running a Check-Disk (Is it dangerous)

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Published on 2009-07-16T05:18:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 22:03 UTC
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I have a lap top that a friend of mine would like me to fix. It is giving a blue screen on boot up. When I looked up the error message it indicates that I should run a check disk.

Is this dangerous? Should I try to off load stuff from the hard drive first?

I ask because I had a hard drive of my own that when I ran check disk it wiped a bunch of "bad sectors" and I lost most of the info on it (but it had been going bad).

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