(This is w2k SP4 question, if it's OT, I'm sorry.)

In Control Panel/DeviceManager/Disk Properties/tols/Error Checking

There is a "check now" button that takes so long to run that I hope
it's doing something. It does 5 passes with no hint about what it's
checking for.

I have several questions;

- What do the passes do ?
- If any problems are found are the logged somewhere ?
- If a serious problem is found does it pause ?

- There are two options;
- Automatically fix file system errors
- Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors

What does "recovery of bad sectors" mean ?

If they are talking about a badblocks tool that reads all sectors and
marks marginal ones as bad and puts them in a bad-block table the
author of this screen needs a human editor.

For extra credit; I ran chkdsk /f on a newly-installed 160GB disk,
with about 40GB of files on it and it ran faster than any chkdsk I've
ever seen (it's been a couple of years since I screwed with hardware,
and back then I was working with 20GB disks). Chkdsk used to take
ages.

Is this a feature of recent versions of NTFS spec ?

Thanks



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/Al Dykes/ said:
> (This is w2k SP4 question, if it's OT, I'm sorry.)
>
> In Control Panel/DeviceManager/Disk Properties/tols/Error Checking
>
> There is a "check now" button that takes so long to run that I hope
> it's doing something. It does 5 passes with no hint about what it's
> checking for.
>
> I have several questions;
>
> - What do the passes do ?
> - If any problems are found are the logged somewhere ?
> - If a serious problem is found does it pause ?
>
> - There are two options;
> - Automatically fix file system errors
> - Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
>
> What does "recovery of bad sectors" mean ?
>
> If they are talking about a badblocks tool that reads all sectors and
> marks marginal ones as bad and puts them in a bad-block table the
> author of this screen needs a human editor.
>
> For extra credit; I ran chkdsk /f on a newly-installed 160GB disk,
> with about 40GB of files on it and it ran faster than any chkdsk I've
> ever seen (it's been a couple of years since I screwed with hardware,
> and back then I was working with 20GB disks). Chkdsk used to take
> ages.
>
> Is this a feature of recent versions of NTFS spec ?

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;218461

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