chkdsk

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Dave

Hi all,
Does anyone know what the command is to check several hard disks for errors
on a restart is?
TIA
Dave
 
One way is to RIGHT CLICK on the drive letter , slide down to and
click on PROPERTIES, and then go to TOOLS.

Doing it from the RUN command,..gee I forgot!!! ..try START, RUN chkdsk
/C ?
 
What I want to do is check C: D: E: F: & G: HDD on the one restart.
Running chkdsk/f only checks C:
Dave
 
Dave said:
What I want to do is check C: D: E: F: & G: HDD on the one restart.
Running chkdsk/f only checks C:
Dave
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IIRC, chkdsk/f on XP flags the chkdsk to be performed on reboot unlike
DOS/9x where it's done immediately.

Would

chkdsk/f c:
chkdsk/f d:
chkdsk/f e:
....

or
for %i in (c d e f g) do chkdsk %i: /f

work?

according to chkdsk/?
the volume is optional (and presumably defaults to the current)

....I don't have multiple HDDs to check.

HTH

....Bill
 
Dave said:
What I want to do is check C: D: E: F: & G: HDD on the one restart.
Running chkdsk/f only checks C:
Dave
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I am using Windows 2000 Pro and I do not know the difference of "chkdsk" on
Windows XP.

In my case, I do "chkdsk" at the end of my daily computer routine or should
I say before I turn-off my computer at night and go to bed.

I have many partitions like yours and it is a pain to do "chkdsk" on these
partitions one a time. I found a chkdsk program from PC World Magazine,
Sept. 2003 issue. I run this program every night and if there are errors on
these partitions , except for C:, it can be seen right away. There are
times that "chkdsk" will tell you that the checking of a particular
partition has to be done at start-up.

The next morning when I turn on the computer, "chkdsk" runs on drive C: and
also for the partition that it has identified that has to be done at
start-up.

The program I found in PC World Magazine needs to be re-written for your
computer. If you enjoy writing programs, you can spend your idle time
trying to make this program work for your own use.

If you hate writing program, just ignore this post.


Orinello
 
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