Need Help With Scandisk

[Jethro]

I have a hard drive, formatted FAT32, with W98SE on it. It has a few
bad spots on it that 'scandisk' will detect and flag. My problem is
that it takes scandisk forever to do this, and requires manual
control.

Is there a version of scandisk or some other program. DOS or
otherwise, that will do what scandisk does automatically - so that I
don't have to keep telling it manually to fix things?

Thanks

Jethro

 

[meerkat]

I have a hard drive, formatted FAT32, with W98SE on it. It has a few
bad spots on it that 'scandisk' will detect and flag. My problem is
that it takes scandisk forever to do this, and requires manual
control.

Is there a version of scandisk or some other program. DOS or
otherwise, that will do what scandisk does automatically - so that I
don't have to keep telling it manually to fix things?

Boot with floppy, then type...scandisk /autofix.

 

[paulmd]

I have a hard drive, formatted FAT32, with W98SE on it. It has a few
bad spots on it that 'scandisk' will detect and flag. My problem is
that it takes scandisk forever to do this, and requires manual
control.

Is there a version of scandisk or some other program. DOS or
otherwise, that will do what scandisk does automatically - so that I
don't have to keep telling it manually to fix things?

Thanks

Jethro

Your drive sounds like it's in the process of failing. Especially as
every time you run the utility you wind up with more bad sectors.
Replace the drive.

Fwiw, there are command line switches in the DOS version of scandisk,
that allow a more automated process. Type scandisk /? in the command
prompt in DOS mode.

 

[Jethro]

My thanks to both of you. I should have thought of /?. /autofix is
running now.

Jethro

 

[Jethro]

Boot with floppy, then type...scandisk /autofix.

Hey guys - Is there a faster scandisk utility? The one I am running
(DOS) is so slow that it might still be running after our next
presidential election! I googled 'fast scandisk', but did not see
anything.

Thanks

Jethro

 

[meerkat]

Hey guys - Is there a faster scandisk utility? The one I am running
(DOS) is so slow that it might still be running after our next
presidential election! I googled 'fast scandisk', but did not see
anything.

Why don`t you go to your H/drive manufacturers website,
and d/load the test tools for your drive ?.
They can be got for floppy or CD use.

 

[paulmd]

Hey guys - Is there a faster scandisk utility? The one I am running
(DOS) is so slow that it might still be running after our next
presidential election! I googled 'fast scandisk', but did not see
anything.

Thanks

Jethro

They're all about the same. The limiting factor is the hard drive read/
write speed.

 

[Jethro]

Why don`t you go to your H/drive manufacturers website,
and d/load the test tools for your drive ?.
They can be got for floppy or CD use.

I had thought of that. The drive is a MAXTOR. I have a copy of their
Powermax HD utility. It says the drive is okay. Yet I can't start up
W98SE that is on the drive without having to do the boot-up scandisk
which seemingly could take a couple of years to complete as it marks
clusters/sectors as /bad/. I just thought that maybe there was a
faster version of scandisk or its equivalent. I guess not.

Thanks

Jethro