Drive check utility?

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Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS chkdsk?
One more friendly and easier to understand results?

TIA
 
Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS
chkdsk?
One more friendly and easier to understand results?

TIA
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See if you can get one from the manufacturer.
 
KenK said:
Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS chkdsk?
One more friendly and easier to understand results?

TIA
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CHKDSK is it.

If you look for "CHKDSK Substitute" in Google,
you end up with a lot of references to "surface scanners",
which is not the same thing at all. Surface scanning
for bad blocks, is only a small part of what CHKDSK does.

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To find the results of CHKDSK, look in Event Viewer.

Event Viewer, Winlogon entry ?

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...in-winxp/1999325e-9d8f-4235-8ef3-3419467f16b0

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Some people understand some of the limitations of
CHKDSK, but their solution to the problem is
entirely different.

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#usedfreespace

* Why does CHKDSK report "free space marked as allocated in the MFT bitmap"
* Why does CHKDSK report "Cleaning up XXX unused"
* Why does CHKDSK report "Deleting an index entry from index $O of file 25"
* Why does CHKDSK report "Correcting errors in the uppercase file"

As near as I can determine, if a Tuxera driver is running, it
uses runtime consistency checking to keep NTFS healthy.
(Something that Windows 8 does as well). If a volume is
offline, they seem to use the same sort of approach as
Recuva or Photorec (scavenging). I don't get the impression
there is an exact equivalent "CHKDSK" there.

Years ago, someone offered a package for $100, which
was supposed to be a complete NTFS implementation.
(I can't remember the name of it, and I don't think it
was Tuxera.) And in the feature set, it mentioned having a
CHKDSK function. But the package offered no trial version,
and I'm not aware of anyone buying or reviewing it.

So if a true substitute exists, "it's hiding itself
pretty well". The NTFSfix in Linux, all it does is
set the Dirty bit, and await your next boot into
Windows, to let the Windows CHKDSK do the real fixing.

Paul
 
Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS chkdsk?
One more friendly and easier to understand results?

TIA
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Not a recommendation, but Scandisk from Win98 will NOT work on Win2000
or XP. I tried.....

I still cant understand why XP and 2000 dont have a GUI based disk
scanner. Seems like another MS screwup. Chkdsk works, (I guess),
because if you dont run it from a dos shell, you dont even see what it
does. It's kind of funny, Starting with Win2000, MS removed Dos (for
the most part) from their OS, and at the same time, resorted back to a
dos based disk checker. Yet, in Win98, which was dos based, they had
Scandisk, which ran both as a GUI in Windows and a command like Dos app.

This dont make much sense to me......
 
Not a recommendation, but Scandisk from Win98 will NOT work on Win2000
or XP. I tried.....

I still cant understand why XP and 2000 dont have a GUI based disk
scanner. Seems like another MS screwup. Chkdsk works, (I guess),
because if you dont run it from a dos shell, you dont even see what it
does. It's kind of funny, Starting with Win2000, MS removed Dos (for
the most part) from their OS, and at the same time, resorted back to a
dos based disk checker. Yet, in Win98, which was dos based, they had
Scandisk, which ran both as a GUI in Windows and a command like Dos app.

This dont make much sense to me......
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Even look into BartPE (free) or WinPE (free from Microsoft)? I think of
them as what I thought of the Windows 9x Startup disk, but for NT
systems. They are basically a mini NT Windows using generic drivers.
They won't fit on a 1.44MB floppy like DOS does, but they do fit on a CD
or flash drive just fine.
 
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