Toshiba Laptop - Scan Hard Drive 1

[LisaAH]

I have a Toshiba laptop approx 4 years old and need to run a low level scan disk on it. Unfortunately I have no OS installed. Can anyone recommend a suitable piece of software I could use?

I am at the stage where I have just run FDISK and removed the partitions and it is getting stuck at 7% when I am trying to Format the drive.

Would appreciate any help please.

Lisa
Manchester - England

 

[kippy13]

As far as I know chkdsk is also on a windows98 boot disk.
Boot up with the same boot disk you ran fdisk from. At the prompt type chkdsk


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[kippy13]

Hi,
Thanks for the star.
I was wondering did this work...as I wasnt to sure if it would so it would be nice to know.

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[micker377]

Running "chkdsk" will only check the disk you specify. Just "chkdsk" will check "A:". To run it on the hard drive, you will have to tell it to "chkdsk C:". You don't have a "C:" until you format it. Catch 22!
After you removed the partitions, what size partitions did you give it, and did you make it "active"?