Automating Checkdisk and disk defragmenter...

[KILOWATT]

Hi everyones...thanks to read. I'm running Win98SE but will upgrade soon
toward Win2000pro or XPpro. Actually, i have two commands i use to simplify
the Scandisk (named Checkdisk in 2000 and XP i think?) and the Disk
Defragmenter:

scandskw /silent /n /allfixeddisks

defrag /all /noprompt

With theese commands, Checkdisk or the disk defragmenter open and start
automatically,doing the work on all the fixed drives(the four partitions on
my hard drive, in this case) without user prompt and after all the drives
have been scanned or defragged, it exits automatically. Do you know if the
Defragmenter and the Checkdisk programs in 2000/XP have such options to use
them in command line mode like i do in Win98? TIA

--
Alain(alias:Kilowatt)
Montréal Québec
PS: 1000 excuses for errors or omissions,
i'm a "pure" french canadian!
Come to visit me at: http://kilowatt.camarades.com
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[Tim]

-----Original Message-----
Hi everyones...thanks to read. I'm running Win98SE but will upgrade soon
toward Win2000pro or XPpro. Actually, i have two commands i use to simplify
the Scandisk (named Checkdisk in 2000 and XP i think?) and the Disk
Defragmenter:

scandskw /silent /n /allfixeddisks

defrag /all /noprompt

With theese commands, Checkdisk or the disk defragmenter open and start
automatically,doing the work on all the fixed drives(the four partitions on
my hard drive, in this case) without user prompt and after all the drives
have been scanned or defragged, it exits automatically. Do you know if the
Defragmenter and the Checkdisk programs in 2000/XP have such options to use
them in command line mode like i do in Win98? TIA

--
Alain(alias:Kilowatt)
Montréal Québec
PS: 1000 excuses for errors or omissions,
i'm a "pure" french canadian!
Come to visit me at: http://kilowatt.camarades.com
(If replying also by e-mail, remove
"no spam" from the adress.)





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Defrag is same, checkdisk is chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r for

surface sacn too, but system needs to reboot to run
chkdsk, it cannot run while windows is running

 

[Steve]

It has to reboot only if he converts to NTFS from Fat32,
which it will not do if he upgrades.

 

[Steve]

In windows 2K or XP this is called schedulling.