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Fred Ma
Hi,
I was running chkdsk from the recovery console. This appears to be
a much simpler version than when windows is fully booted:
c:\> chkdsk/?
CHKDSK [drive:[ [/P] [/R]
[drive:] Specifies the drive to check
/P Check eve if the drive is knot flagged dirty
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
(implies /P)
I got the following messages:
CHKDSK is checking the volume....
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK has finished chekcing the volume.
29302528 kilobytes total disk space
25325116 kilobytes are available.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
7325632 total allocation units on disk.
6331279 allocation units available on disk.
Does this mean there were problems? I googled the web and
usenet, but problems seem to be associated with more explicitly
ominous messages than the above. This disk passsed hardware
diagnostics, both Dell's (it's a Dell Inspiron 8000) as well
as Fujitsu's (the HDD is a Fujitsu MHT2030AT). Dell's diagnostic
lasted hours, Fujitsu's lasted 20 minutes.
The reason why I still question the integrity despite the passing
of diagnostics is because my formerly spanking-new reinstallation
of Win2K got horribly corrupted. I was asked to reinstall (lost
data). The first reinstallation took alot of time, and I want to
be sure that it's even worth doing a 2nd time.
Thanks.
Fred
I was running chkdsk from the recovery console. This appears to be
a much simpler version than when windows is fully booted:
c:\> chkdsk/?
CHKDSK [drive:[ [/P] [/R]
[drive:] Specifies the drive to check
/P Check eve if the drive is knot flagged dirty
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
(implies /P)
I got the following messages:
CHKDSK is checking the volume....
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK is performing additional checking or recovery...
CHKDSK has finished chekcing the volume.
29302528 kilobytes total disk space
25325116 kilobytes are available.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
7325632 total allocation units on disk.
6331279 allocation units available on disk.
Does this mean there were problems? I googled the web and
usenet, but problems seem to be associated with more explicitly
ominous messages than the above. This disk passsed hardware
diagnostics, both Dell's (it's a Dell Inspiron 8000) as well
as Fujitsu's (the HDD is a Fujitsu MHT2030AT). Dell's diagnostic
lasted hours, Fujitsu's lasted 20 minutes.
The reason why I still question the integrity despite the passing
of diagnostics is because my formerly spanking-new reinstallation
of Win2K got horribly corrupted. I was asked to reinstall (lost
data). The first reinstallation took alot of time, and I want to
be sure that it's even worth doing a 2nd time.
Thanks.
Fred