Checking for bad sectors on my second HD

[Evi]

On my primary hard drive if I run ChkDisk from a command prompt, it offers
to start when I reboot and I can read the results in Event viewer.
If I use the same command on my second hard drive

chkdsk e: /f /r

CheckDisk runs immediately within windows and there is no event in Event
Viewer.

Before I got my new PC, running that command on my second hard drive always
brought up the questions 1) do I want to dismount? (no) 2) do I want to run
CheckDisk when Windows reboots. (Yes)

I presume this doesn't happen anymore because my second hard drive now
contains no programs, only data.

So how can I read my scan disk results by running from startup.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

On my primary hard drive if I run ChkDisk from a command prompt, it
offers to start when I reboot and I can read the results in Event
viewer.
If I use the same command on my second hard drive

chkdsk e: /f /r

Note, you don't actually need the /f switch if you use /r - you can run
chkdsk e: /r alone as /r implies /f

CheckDisk runs immediately within windows and there is no event in
Event Viewer.

But do you see it running?

Before I got my new PC, running that command on my second hard drive
always brought up the questions 1) do I want to dismount? (no) 2) do
I want to run CheckDisk when Windows reboots. (Yes)

Peculiar. It shouldn't ask you that at all unless it's your system volume -
chkdsk can't run on a system volume when you're *in* the system volume.

I presume this doesn't happen anymore because my second hard drive now
contains no programs, only data.

Nothing to do with it....

 

[Jerold Schulman]

On my primary hard drive if I run ChkDisk from a command prompt, it offers
to start when I reboot and I can read the results in Event viewer.
If I use the same command on my second hard drive

chkdsk e: /f /r

CheckDisk runs immediately within windows and there is no event in Event
Viewer.

Before I got my new PC, running that command on my second hard drive always
brought up the questions 1) do I want to dismount? (no) 2) do I want to run
CheckDisk when Windows reboots. (Yes)

I presume this doesn't happen anymore because my second hard drive now
contains no programs, only data.

So how can I read my scan disk results by running from startup.

Using tip 8 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com as a guide,

autocheck autochk /r \??\E:

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Evi]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Note, you don't actually need the /f switch if you use /r - you can run
chkdsk e: /r alone as /r implies /f

But do you see it running?

Peculiar. It shouldn't ask you that at all unless it's your system volume -
chkdsk can't run on a system volume when you're *in* the system volume.


Nothing to do with it....

Yes, I can see scan disk running, in the command prompt window. But there is
no information saved into the Event Viewer as there used to be when I ran it
from boot up.

I can also run scan disk by going the disk's Properties and tools but again,
nothing appears in Event Viewer.

Evi

 

[Evi]

Using tip 8 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com as a guide,

autocheck autochk /r \??\E:

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

I'm a bit nervous about getting this wrong so can I check. Are you saying
that if I type
autocheck autochk /r \??\E:
in the key which currently says
autocheck autochk *
then my system will run a checkdisk on my E drive when I boot up.
What do the two question marks mean?

Evi