Question About Scan Disk

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Hello. Whenever I defragment my hard drive I run the Windows error-checking
utility (Scan Disk) before the defrag to check for errors. I'm helping to
build a computer and the owner wants to make a set of recovery disks for his
computer. I ran Scan Disk a few days ago and found no problems but I would
like to run it one last time, then defrag, before making the owner's Disk
Image set. Question: How often is it safe to run the Windows error-checking
utility/Scan Disk within a certain period of time? BTW, The Hard Drive of
the computer in question is 500 Gigs and takes two hours to run the
utility...I'm patient however!
Any info/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance.
.



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