Check Disk error log? Bad sector report?

[Paul J]

Where is the Check Disk log kept?

My system started getting a little flaky. I tried running check disk with
the two flags set, automatically fix file system errors and scan for and
atempt recovery of bad sectors. Rebooted, program ran during boot, it
crashed during the last phase of checking, rebooted and then finished the
last phase. It displayed some error information for about a nanosecond,
then continued to boot and I would like to see what it said. Is this stored
in a log file somewhere? I've looked all through help, I looked at every
file with the name *.log, chkdsk* and file* created during the time I ran
this but no luck. Any ideas?

Also, how do I get a listed of how many bad sectors my disks have. Again
help was no help. This info seemed easier to get back in the days of DOS!

Many thanks for any help.

paul

 

[Guest]

You could/should press the pause key as it displays the data info,you can also open cmd,type
CHKDSK C: Its then in a read only mode and the info gets displayed.

 

[Paul J]

Sorry, one more question. When I run chkdsk in Command Prompt (read only,
no /F) I get:

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verificaiton completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleting index entry CHKDSK.EXE-2CC4C59D.pf in index $I30 of file 2146.
Deleting index entry CHKDSK~1.PF in index $I30 of file 2146.
Index verification completed.

Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.

What is a .pf file? Any idea what is happening here?

In previous versions chkdsk used to print out lots of info about the disk, I
believe including the number of bad sectors. Is there a way to see this
now? I didn't see it in the list of available options (flags).

paul

 

[Paul J]

Andrew, thanks for the suggestions. I tried hitting pause, it just
disappeared too quickly. As you wrote this I tried chkdsk without the C:
and didn't get this info, but trying your suggestion it does work with the
C:. Interesting that it says that there are no bad sectors. I ran Disk
Checking in Windows numerous times (without the auto fix and scan flags), I
would guess that it would at least report errors in this mode, I'm surprised
that this mode didn't report errors yet checking with the auto fix and scan
flags caught errors that were other than bad sector errors.

Another thing chkdsk reports, it says 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
Where the heck is this log file??

paul

 

[David Candy]

When Autochk runs against a volume at boot time it records its output to a file called Bootex.log in the root of the volume being checked. The Winlogon service then moves the contents of each Bootex.log file to the Application Event log. One event log message for each volume checked is recorded as follows:

 

[Paul J]

Thanks David, I found Event Viewer and found the error log:
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the

master file table (MFT) bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.

I'm surprised this wasn't fixed when I ran Windows Check Disk without the 2
flags checked. I'm also a little surprised that this would cause Check Disk
to crash the first time. Hmm.



paul

When Autochk runs against a volume at boot time it records its output to a
file called Bootex.log in the root of the volume being checked. The Winlogon
service then moves the contents of each Bootex.log file to the Application
Event log. One event log message for each volume checked is recorded as
follows: