I'll be soon getting a new Dell laptop with WinXP.
Not ever used XP.
What is its equivalent way to do Win98's "scandisk"?

The equivalent is "error-checking"
Right click your hard drive in My Computer.
Right click, and select properties.
Select the Tools tab.
You'll see Error checking and Defragmentation.
The error-checking, after you click check now, gives you two options.
"Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery
of bad sectors"

It does a good job, although something like Norton's System Works is a lot better.

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"geronimo" wrote:

> I'll be soon getting a new Dell laptop with WinXP.
> Not ever used XP.
> What is its equivalent way to do Win98's "scandisk"?
>

>-----Original Message-----
>I'll be soon getting a new Dell laptop with WinXP.
>Not ever used XP.
>What is its equivalent way to do Win98's "scandisk"?
>.
>XP will not do a scandisk when running. You will have to
setup "schedule" ie (startup) exc. Do this in the tools
section. It will auto do a scandisk at power failure or
reset.

"Jim Mattingly" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news90610C0-2C41-437F-81D2-(E-Mail Removed)...
> The equivalent is "error-checking"
> Right click your hard drive in My Computer.
> Right click, and select properties.
> Select the Tools tab.
> You'll see Error checking and Defragmentation.
> The error-checking, after you click check now, gives you two options.
> "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery
> of bad sectors"
>
> It does a good job, although something like Norton's System Works is a lot
better.



As I have System Works I would like to know how It's disk checking is better
than the Windows method. Having used both methods it seems to me that they
both use the same checking tool.

Richard.