Check-disk/scan-disk utility

[Rubicon]

Is there any third-party (freeware a plus) utility that can do a CHKDSK of a
drive within Windows?
I am thinking in lines of the old DiskDoctor from Norton.
Regards and thanks in anticipation.
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[db.·.. >]

what's wrong with
the genuine chkdsk?

most third party freeware
utilize the built in
chkdsk system and
simply overlay it with
a graphical user interface.

but if you are curious
about a utility for disks
like chkdsk, then i
recommend acronis
disk director.

its not free but it
is "reliable".

 

[Nonny]

Is there any third-party (freeware a plus) utility that can do a CHKDSK of a
drive within Windows?

Got Google?

 

[ju.c]

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[Pete Puma]

Is there any third-party (freeware a plus) utility that can do a CHKDSK of
a drive within Windows?
I am thinking in lines of the old DiskDoctor from Norton.
Regards and thanks in anticipation.
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You used to be able to attack the drive, live, in ye olden days of Windows
98.
XP requires a complete unmounting of the drive, so you need to (and tell me
if you know how to do this) set up something on a USB key that will boot,
see SATA drives and USB drives, and attack the OS. Repeatedly until the
errors disappear, which often takes many repairs.
Or do it from a boot CD the slow way or a boot-slipstreamed disk.

I'd LOVE to do this in command-line from a USB drive.
Anyone know how?

 

[R. McCarty]

The simplest way to get a Chkdsk capability from outside Windows
is with a Bart's PE boot disk. You could always create a bootable
USB Thumb drive ( 9X/ME ) and use a Dos Mode NTFS driver but
that's a lot of work. The Bart's PE disk is faster to boot than using a
XP CD to boot the Recovery Console. I've had a good bit of success
running a Chkdsk on a Windows volume with the PE disk.

 

[Rubicon]

My response at bottom:

Is there any third-party (freeware a plus) utility that can do a CHKDSK of
a
drive within Windows?
I am thinking in lines of the old DiskDoctor from Norton.
Regards and thanks in anticipation.
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Thanks for the informative responses. I was try out possibilities because I
recall reading/hearing somewhere that MS chkdsk is not as thorough as some
third-party utilities available.
Regards.
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[Bill in Co.]

OR running something like NTFSDOS or NTFS4DOS on a Flash drive at bootup,
which is faster than any of this.

 

[R. McCarty]

Those drivers will mount an NTFS volume, but what actual disk
utility would you add to run a drive scan ?

 

[Bill in Co.]

chkdsk (or a version of it)

Those drivers will mount an NTFS volume, but what actual disk
utility would you add to run a drive scan ?

 

[R. McCarty]

Just curious if copying the native Chkdsk.Exe would run in a 9X
or ME boot environment. Always thought a NT compiled Exe
would not invoke from those earlier OS'es.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Well, it may not have been the native version. Some of these programs
come with their own version.

 

[Pete Puma]

Thanks guys, appreciate the posts.
I'll do some experimenting... right now the sum total of my XP and heavy
experimentation leads me to believe strongly in running chkdsk until it
smooths out the wrinkles and reports correctly before doing an install or
something important like video capture. No registry toys anymore--been
there...

Between chkdsk, the very occasional sfc /scannow and installing only with
every non- MS applet turned off, I have a 5 year old P4 3.0 system that's
booting XP in 21 secs or so. And X-tremely stable.