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replace or similar for the old scandisk proggy. I am using XP and I
haven't noticed it in operation or existance. I kinda miss something
that can check my hardsik from within windows.
Any suggestions

Cheers

Gumpy
 
Gumpy said:
replace or similar for the old scandisk proggy. I am using XP and I
haven't noticed it in operation or existance. I kinda miss something
that can check my hardsik from within windows.
Any suggestions
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Scandisk is still there, but in a different location, and under a different
name, "chkdsk": http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/tips/scandisk_xp.html
After setting it up, it won't run until you reboot- at which point it will
run before Windows launches.

Regards,
Ian.
 
Ionizer said:
Scandisk is still there, but in a different location, and under a
different name, "chkdsk":
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/tips/scandisk_xp.html After
setting it up, it won't run until you reboot- at which point it will
run before Windows launches.

Regards,
Ian.
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Billy boy has even a reasen to do this:
The scan will take place before the swapfile is created, and when there
areas little files locked as possible under XP.

Wish they would have done this with the defrag too. I have little need in
seeing coulered blocks (or lines under w2k and xp) to appear and disapear
while defragmenting.

MightyKitten
 
Wish they would have done this with the defrag too. I have little need in
seeing coulered blocks (or lines under w2k and xp) to appear and disapear
while defragmenting.

MightyKitten
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I can watch them for hours - must be I need an aquarium

mike r
 
Billy boy has even a reasen to do this:
The scan will take place before the swapfile is created, and when there
areas little files locked as possible under XP.

Wish they would have done this with the defrag too. I have little need in
seeing coulered blocks (or lines under w2k and xp) to appear and disapear
while defragmenting.

MightyKitten


Why not just do defrag from dos or use Fred Langa's bat file method.

Using the Defrag help text as a guide, you can see that manually triggering
Defrag is simplicity itself: The command "DEFRAG C:" (without the quotes)
would tell Defrag to work on your C: volume or drive, for example. "DEFRAG
D:" would tell Defrag to work on the D: drive. "DEFRAG C: -a" would tell
Defrag to analyze how much your C: drive is fragmented, but not to actually
perform a defragmentation. And so on.

Command-Line Automation
For example, open a new, empty Notepad and enter one line of plain text:
DEFRAG C:
Now, click to Notepad's File/Save As menu. Navigate to your Desktop in the
"Save In" portion of the dialog. In the "Save As Type" scroll box, scroll
down to the "All Files" type (instead of the default "Text Documents").
Finally, in the "File Name" area, name your new file "DEFRAG C.BAT" (or any
similar, obvious name ending in ".BAT"). Then, click Save. The file should
be added to your desktop with a .BAT extension (instead of a .TXT
extension).

nocando
 
nocando wrote:
Why not just do defrag from dos or use Fred Langa's bat file method.

Using the Defrag help text as a guide, you can see that manually
triggering Defrag is simplicity itself: The command "DEFRAG C:"
(without the quotes) would tell Defrag to work on your C: volume or
drive, for example. "DEFRAG D:" would tell Defrag to work on the D:
drive. "DEFRAG C: -a" would tell Defrag to analyze how much your C:
drive is fragmented, but not to actually perform a defragmentation.
And so on.

Command-Line Automation
For example, open a new, empty Notepad and enter one line of plain
text: DEFRAG C:
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nocando
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Hmm, never thought *that* would work under XP. IIRC defrag through a cmd
promt under W2K gave huge problems, so I dismissed the option. But I tried,
and it seem to behave itself quite well, though still not too fast (as we
might expect). But I guess you still have the open files problem when you
run run it in a dosbox from windows. but it might be an option to run it
from the installation/repair console once in a while.

thanks!
 
Gumpy said:
replace or similar for the old scandisk proggy. I am using XP and I
haven't noticed it in operation or existance. I kinda miss something
that can check my hardsik from within windows.
Any suggestions

Cheers

Gumpy
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Rightclick a drive --> Properties --> Tools tab - Error Checking ?
 
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