Dirty HD. Are there any alternatives to chkdsk?

[Stryker]

Chkdsk does not seem to do the job in spite of multiple attempts so I
wondered if any NG contributor had found another way, apart from a reformat,
of cleaning a dirty HD.

TIA

Stryker

 

[Brian Gaff]

Don't know what you mean by dirty.

Sounfds to me like the drive is just faulty, and the bin might be the best
place for it!

Brian

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[Ross Durie]

Window cleaner works great.

 

[DL]

The hd manu.web site often has a hd checking utility for download.

 

[Bob Harris]

There are three ways to run CHKDSK, all from a command prompt: (1) no
options, which checks the disk, but fixes nothing, (2) /F option, which
fixes some things, (3) /R option, which does /F plus more, and even checks
parts of the disk where there are no files. The /F and /R options require a
reboot to work.

If the /R option can not fix it, then it is time to save files and try
reformatting or getting a new disk.

 

[Stryker]

Thank you Bob that's a help.

Stryker

There are three ways to run CHKDSK, all from a command prompt: (1) no
options, which checks the disk, but fixes nothing, (2) /F option, which
fixes some things, (3) /R option, which does /F plus more, and even checks
parts of the disk where there are no files. The /F and /R options require
a reboot to work.

If the /R option can not fix it, then it is time to save files and try
reformatting or getting a new disk.

 

[Steve N.]

Thank you Bob that's a help.

What Bob said plus backup your files 1st and after running CHKDSK /R if
it finds bad sectors then use the HDD manufacturer disk utility to test
the drive.

Steve