How do i use the chkdsk command??

[Loring Hutchinson]

I am trying to see if any portion of my slave hard drive is
recoverable. When I try to open it I get, "this disk is not formatted,
do you want to format it"
When I looked in help under CHKDSK I get the following.
"the chkdsk command is only available when you are using the Recovery
Console. The chkdsk command with different parameters is available
from the command prompt"
I cant seem to find the Recovery Console. Can anyone help get me juimp
started?????

TIA Loring H

 

[db]

it might be that the ntfs
crashed which is not too
unusual of an occurrence.

what you might want
to try is to download
a trialware onto your
master drive called
Acronis Disk Director.

it has the ability to scan
some crashed drives and
will show you the files it
can find and read.

the only catch is that
it won't restore the NTFileSystem
on the slave without buying
the program.

So if the problem you have
is recoverable with the software
and you think that the data is
worth saving, then its not a bad
program to buy and have.

If on the other hand your issue
is not a issue of a crashed ntfs
partition, then you need to let
us know...

- db
I am trying to see if any portion of my slave hard drive is
recoverable. When I try to open it I get, "this disk is not formatted,
do you want to format it"
When I looked in help under CHKDSK I get the following.
"the chkdsk command is only available when you are using the Recovery
Console. The chkdsk command with different parameters is available
from the command prompt"
I cant seem to find the Recovery Console. Can anyone help get me juimp
started?????

TIA Loring H

 

[Guest]

You need to bootup to your Windows XP CD and then get in to the Recovery
Console. It will ask you if you want to get into it. Once your in there type:
chkdsk c:\ /f
/f fixes any issues you might have with the disk. You said something about a
slave drive so c:\ will be D:\ or E:\ or whatever the drive letter is. You
can also type chkdsk /? and it will give you other options.

If you in windows already, go to a command prompt and type chkdsk c:\ /f and
it will ask you to do it on the next reboot. This seems to work too.

Good luck.

 

[Curt Christianson]

Hi Loring,

See these MS articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true


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