FSUTIL : Powerful Disk Tool

This thread has the potential to break a live server therefore only issue commands shown in this thread if you know what you are doing, the owner of the blog accepts no responsibility for data loss or service issues this thread may cause...
FSUTIL is a very powerful disk analyser that can tell you issues that may occur with the File System (FS) before Windows breaks your server....from a DOS prompt you can enter the command:

fsutil

It supports a wealth of commands...

---- Commands Supported ----
behavior Control file system behavior

dirty Manage volume dirty bit

file File specific commands

fsinfo File system information

hardlink Hardlink management

objectid Object ID management

quota Quota management

reparsepoint Reparse point management

sparse Sparse file control

usn USN management

volume Volume management

So ask this utility for your disk statistics using the command:

fsutil fsinfo statistics c:

You get the results as shown below:

File System Type : NTFS
UserFileReads : 44546

UserFileReadBytes : 1061528576

UserDiskReads : 45843

UserFileWrites : 28122

UserFileWriteBytes : 1032515584

UserDiskWrites : 31732

MetaDataReads : 3418

MetaDataReadBytes : 33697792

MetaDataDiskReads : 4863

MetaDataWrites : 9813

MetaDataWriteBytes : 56332288

MetaDataDiskWrites : 14010
MftReads : 3000

MftReadBytes : 31985664

MftWrites : 7631

MftWriteBytes : 41050112

Mft2Writes : 0

Mft2WriteBytes : 0

RootIndexReads : 0

RootIndexReadBytes : 0

RootIndexWrites : 0

RootIndexWriteBytes : 0

BitmapReads : 301

BitmapReadBytes : 1232896

BitmapWrites : 1806

BitmapWriteBytes : 13570048

MftBitmapReads : 3

MftBitmapReadBytes : 12288

MftBitmapWrites : 367

MftBitmapWriteBytes : 1675264

UserIndexReads : 1445

UserIndexReadBytes : 5918720

UserIndexWrites : 3554

UserIndexWriteBytes : 18247680

LogFileReads : 6

LogFileReadBytes : 24576

LogFileWrites : 11839

LogFileWriteBytes : 131252224

Finally the best feature is the "Dirty" bit settings, to check your C: use this command:

fsutil dirty query c:

You will get the result:

Volume - c: is NOT Dirty

If you want to make the drive Dirty then use the command:

fsutil dirty set c:

Volume - c: is now marked dirty

You will now get a full CHKDSK on your C: use caution when using this command on a server....