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Scan Disk
Name: saahil Date: September 10, 2007 at 21:46:24 Pacific OS: Windows CPU/Ram: 512 MB
Comment:
Dear Friends,
How can I scan disk my system (Windows XP)? Where can I find this utility in XP?
Name: soupnasty Date: September 10, 2007 at 22:20:25 Pacific
Reply:
Go to My Computer, right mouse click on the C: drive icon, select Properties / Tools / Error checking / Check Now
Then put a tick in the first box Automatically fix file system errors. Then click on Start.
Read the next message and then reboot your computer.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: September 11, 2007 at 16:06:21 Pacific
Reply:
In other words there is no scandisk. Scandisk was for dos based OS's like 98. NT based OS's use chkdsk via a cmd prompt. The automated GUI way above can also be done via cmd and typing chkdsk /f and answering yes to the question of can't lock the disk, run at bootup.
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Summary: I still am having problems with scan disk. SFC /SCANNOW dose not help this matter. Here is the original post. When I run Scan disk I select automatically fix system errors, and it come up saying that ...
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