Re check disk utility

Hi... all,
What and where is the check disk utility?
I dropped my external 1T western digital and although I ran through this with the disk utility, It did this in a couple of mins...
On my PC this would have taken hours. Did it actually check all the sectors in that time? Or is there no sector checking?
Anita

I don't believe there is any built-in surface scan in any Mac OS X. If Disk Utility gave you a clean bill of health, you are probably fine. If you really want to do a surface scan, you can spend some money for TechTool Pro or DiskWarrior and check it that way.

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Things are buggy so figured a reinstall this time using the Check disk utlity thingy - anyone know what I need to do?

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My first inclination is to think that you might have some directory corruption that's interfering with how your Mac is running. The comment above to back up your data is right on. Do that first.
Once that's done, try booting to your install disk, selecting Disk Utility from the Utilities menu, and then select your hard drive. Pick "Verify disk," and if it needs repair, choose "Repair disk" - this may resolve the issue.
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If worse comes to worst, you may need to erase your drive and reinstall from scratch, and then restore from your backup, but let's see how the other steps go first.
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If you fill your disk up that far, you are going to have problems. Don't ever do this, 10% is a bare minimum, you may need even more, depending on the size of your disc.
I have seen before where a disc repair utility couldn't perform its function simply because there was not enough slack space available on the drive. While I have never seen this with disc utility, it is possible that the disc is repairable as-is, if you could just free up a couple more gigs of space first.
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-a

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