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Why no scandisk?
Name: raincheck Date: December 29, 2003 at 13:15:08 Pacific OS: Win 2000 pro CPU/Ram: 450/128
Comment:
Does anyone know why Windows 2000 pro doesn't have "scandisk"? I understand it has "error check", but that doesn't have surface scan for instance. What gives? bronson
Name: dannyboy Date: December 29, 2003 at 14:43:16 Pacific
Reply:
Windows NT/2K/XP use chkdsk instead of scandisk, as scandisk can only scan FAT partitions (not NTFS).
I don't know why chkdsk doesn't have a surface scan option though, but I guess there's a perfectly good reason. Anyone else?
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Response Number 2
Name: jpers Date: December 30, 2003 at 09:50:57 Pacific
Reply:
It does! Use the GUI to invoke chkdsk rather than command line:
> in winExplore, R-click the volume (drive letter) you want to scan
> Properties > Tools > "check now" button
and a little dialog box pops-up: check both boxes (it's the "scan for & fix bad sectors" box that will surface scan - but you want to do both)
System will probably want to restart, then will scan prior to loading windows. Takes forever on large volumes - defraging first will speed the process some.
Some 3rd party tools have better algorythms than MS's built-ins. Your drive manufacturer will surely have a suite of tools that includes surface scan.
Best, JP
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: December 30, 2003 at 21:11:54 Pacific
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AND you too can do it from the command line!
just type chkdsk /? for all the switches at a cmd prompt.
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