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dos scandisk alternatives
Name: shaggydoo Date: June 14, 2002 at 10:25:10 Pacific
Comment:
is there any alternative to scandisk for dos? anything freeware or shareware? anything more reliable? anything faster?
You can get Norton Utilities 4.5A from www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk towards the bottom of his DOS Resource Page.
It contains many utilities to keep your harddrive in order, including Disk Test (DT.EXE) and Speed Disk (SD.EXE)which are NU's Scandisk & Defrag.
WARNING - Only for FAT16 Drives however!
And best of all its now Freeware!
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Response Number 5
Name: 386guru Date: June 15, 2002 at 00:26:59 Pacific
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freedos has a scandisk alternative. it's free. you can download it on www.freedos.org
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Response Number 6
Name: shaggydoo Date: June 15, 2002 at 10:36:12 Pacific
Reply:
thanks all! some really great answers to get me started off. if anything else comes to mind please post it up here for me, thanks.
results of various google searches prior to posting here were *worse than useless*, eg:
Your search - "scan disk alternatives" - did not match any documents. The spelling correction - "scandisk alternatives" - also did not match any documents. Suggestions: Make sure all words are spelled correctly. Try different keywords. Try more general keywords.
can't beat real opinions of real people with real first-hand experience!
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Response Number 7
Name: W0rm Date: June 15, 2002 at 11:21:13 Pacific
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I'm writing a disk scanner, but it'll take quite some time :) -- only finds detailed problems with the bootsector at the moment.
I intend to work on it slowly on purpose to make sure I can catch any possible issue. - W0rm - http://dos.li5.org
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Response Number 8
Name: Wengier Date: June 15, 2002 at 13:55:59 Pacific
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Here is Norton Disk Doctor 2002 for DOS: http://www.bear5.com/share/dos/ndd2002.zip
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Response Number 9
Name: shaggydoo Date: June 17, 2002 at 11:50:00 Pacific
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386guru, freedos doesn't currently appear to have a scandisk alternative or even checkdisk, could it have been in an earlier release?
W0rm, judging by the other stuff on your website your disk scanner should be well worth the wait.
Wengier,http://www.bear5.com/share/dos/ndd2002.zip appears to be a dead link
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Response Number 10
Name: Wengier Date: June 18, 2002 at 17:47:43 Pacific
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This link should be OK: http://gmy.51.net/sos/ndd2002.zip
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