Different Versions of CHKDSK

[Gilgamesh]

I had a problem with one of my disks when creating a ghost backup and a
message to run chkdsk.
I booted back into XP and scheduled chkdsk to run and repair the next time I
rebooted and when it ran it didn't find any errors. But ghost was still
reporting a problem.
However when I booted from my install CD into the recovery console and ran
chkdsk from there it found and fixed a problem which then allowed ghost to
run.

Why does it seem that MS have put a different version of chkdsk in the
installed windows environment to the one on the recovery console? Surely if
they are going to check the disks it makes sense to put all of the checks
into the instance that most people would try first (as part of the installed
windows)

 

[Gerry]

It's not a different version of chkdsk The tool is working in a
different environment.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[quiettechblue]

Gerry (e-mail address removed) posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

It's not a different version of chkdsk The tool is working in a
different environment.

And would kindly explain why that should make any difference?

 

[Gerry]

Less going on to interfere with what chkdsk is doing. Same point applies
with safe mode which is why running certain tasks is better in safe mode
rather than normal mode.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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