How do I get a bad sector report on my second hard drive.

[Evi]

I have a stand-alone Win2000 Professional PC.

If I run ChkDsk on my main hard drive it offers to run next time I boot up.
After it has run I can look in Event Viewer and I will get a reassuring
report that there are 0 bad sectors on my hard drive.

When I try to run ChkDsk on my second hard drive, it simply starts inside
the command prompt and there is no report in Event Viewer. How can I get
that report or how can I persuade my PC to check my second hard drive on
bootup (which would automatically get me the report). I don't want it to do
this every time I boot, only when I'm doing my 'house-keeping'.

Evi

 

[John John]

Chkdsk drive: /F

Example: Chkdsk E: /F will prompt you if the volume "E" is in use by
another process and offer to check the volume on reboot. This would set
the volume to "dirty" and cause autochk to run on reboot. You can use
chkntfs to verify the "dirty" status of the volume or change it.

Description of Enhanced Chkdsk, Autochk, and Chkntfs Tools in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/218461/EN-US/

John

 

[Evi]

ChkDsk E: /f still lets the scan disk start immediately on my secondary hard
drive (E)

It looks as if what I need is Chkntfs

I didn't understand the MS KB page

It says

Chkntfs /C: Schedules a volume to be checked at boot time

Where should I put the E bit?
And should I really put in the colon after the letter C or is that just
punctuation?


I tried
chkntfs /C E:

I got no message when I pressed Enter and when I Restarted no Chkdsk occured

so I tried

Chkntfs E: /C

again, no message but this time Windows hung when I rebooted (no Chkdsk
though)

Am I getting my spacing wrong?

Evi





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[John John]

Open a file on drive E before you do the command. Or just open Windows
Explorer and explore drive E. While explorer is open on drive E do the
command (chkdsk e: /f) and it will report the drive as being used by
another process and ask you if you want to force a dismount on the
drive, reply NO (n). Then it will ask you if you want to schedule a
chkdsk on the volume on reboot, reply YES (y).

John

 

[Evi]

You total genius, John. That did the trick. I just rang the command with
Windows Explorer open and got the result I wanted.

Evi

 

[John John]

Genius aren't what they used to be :-; If I'm a genius the standards
are slipping downhill... Glad to see you got the results you wanted.

John