Scandisk for Windows XP 1

[m1ckG]

Any body know of any good Scandisk programs for Windows XP???

Thanks

 

[MarkMc32]

Executive Software's Diskeeper works well.

 

[wolluf]

what's wrong with chkdsk? (you know, the built in disk checking app)

 

[jonlog]

>>what's wrong with chkdsk? (you know, the built in disk checking app)<<<

Just typing CHKDSK won't do anything. The correct way is to open a DOS window and type: CHKDSK/F.

Without the /F chkdsk does nothing. /F tells it to fix the errors on the hard drive it finds.

 

[SESaskDFC]

jonlog:

I tried yours and guess what.. file not found.. Did you know there is supposed to be a space between chkdsk and/f?? Works better that way !!

As for plain old chkdsk, I just finished running it and guess what.. it found and removed two uneeded files. So much for the /f parameter.

Murray

 

[bcastner]

A decent article on all of chkdsk syntax:

https://www.microsoft.com/technet/t...hNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/chkdsk.asp

You might consider a chkdsk /r to do a sector scan instead of the file oriented /f.

 

[ttterk]

And inside XP you can right-click a drive, select Properties > Tools tab > Error Checking &quot;Check Now&quot; box. This results in a Check Disk applet that has options to &quot;Automatically fix file system errors&quot; and to &quot;Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors&quot;.

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