| "Diana" <
[email protected]>
| Message | Is there somewhere on my computer I can go to read the
| Chkdsk results?
| I ran Chkdsk c: and the results only stayed on my screen
| for a few seconds....not long enough to read and
| understand what I was looking at.
| I would like to make myself smart (okay, a little
| smarter, if that's even possible!) before running Chkdsk
| c: /f /r.
In short, add cmd /k to your run command. The /k parameter
directs cmd.exe to run, carry out the command specified, and
continue (not terminate). To see this in action without actually
running chkdsk on a partition click Start, click Run, type the
following command and click OK:
cmd /k chkdsk /?
To use the procedure with your "Chkdsk c:" command, click Start,
click Run, type the following command and click OK:
cmd /k chkdsk c:
More Information:
There are two tools you can use to detect and repair disk errors.
The GUI error-checking tool as described in the Windows XP Help
and Support Center Full-text Search Matches titled: "Detecting
and repairing disk errors". And the command-prompt method as
described in the Windows XP Help and Support Center Full-text
Search Matches titled: "Chkdsk".
When you select to detect and repair disk errors using either
method and the tool cannot gain exclusive use of a volume it asks
you to schedule the volume to be checked at next system restarts.
If you answer Yes the tool schedules the version of chkdsk known
as autochk to run at next boot. While this autochk tool is in
progress it displays a report on the screen. It also generates a
detailed status report and logs it in the Application Log of
Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc):
Type: Information
Source: Winlogon
Event: 1001
When you select to detect and repair disk errors using the GUI
error-checking tool and the tool can gain exclusive use (because
there are no open handles or because you select to force a
dismount), the tool runs and no report is displayed or logged.
When you select to detect and repair disk errors using the
command-prompt method and the tool can gain exclusive use
(because there are no open handles or because you select to force
a dismount), the tool displays a report while it is in progress.
It also displays a status report on the screen when it is
finished.
If you want to save the output of the report generated by the
command-prompt method to a *.txt file you can copy it from the
console window and paste it into a text editor. And if you enable
Quick Edit Mode for the command prompt you can easily select the
text in the Command Prompt window with your left mouse button,
and then right-click. Then paste it into a text file by
right-clicking in the file and choosing Paste. For more
information search the Windows XP Professional Help and Support
Center for the Full-text Search Matches titled: "To configure
the command prompt"
Another method to save a *.txt report is to use the redirection
operator to redirect the output to a text file. For example, if
you click Start, click Run, type the following command and
click OK...
chkdsk C: > C:\DiskReport.txt
.... chkdsk runs in read-only mode without console output but
after it completes you will find the report in the file named
C:\DiskReport.txt.
For more information search the Windows XP Professional Help and
Support Center for the Full-text Search Matches titled: "Using
command redirection operators"
For either tool, you can force it to generate a detailed report
and log it in the Application Log of Event Viewer by forcing it
to schedule autochk to run at next boot. To do that make certain
that the volume you are checking has an open handle. An easy way
to create an open handle is to open any document (such as one
created by Notepad or Word) and leave it open, use either tool to
detect and repair disk errors, then (obviously) answer Yes to
have autochk run the next time the system restarts. After
restart you will find the status report log in the Application
Log of Event Viewer as noted above.
