Pausing Screen after Diskcheck/Repair on reboot

[Guest]

Hi

OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

When I ran a chkdsk c:/f yesterday I caught a glimps of an error message on
the screen but didn't have time to read it before the PC rebooted.

I checked Event Viewer but although it showed the results of the chkdsk, the
error mesage wasn't there.

Is there some way I can pause the screen during chkdsk to enable me to read
any messages?

 

[Rock]

Hi

OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

When I ran a chkdsk c:/f yesterday I caught a glimps of an error message
on
the screen but didn't have time to read it before the PC rebooted.

I checked Event Viewer but although it showed the results of the chkdsk,
the
error mesage wasn't there.

Is there some way I can pause the screen during chkdsk to enable me to
read
any messages?

Sorry I don't know how you would do that. I have never seen an error like
that when running chkdsk. As a word of caution, though, never run chkdsk to
correct errors, without first having a full and complete backup of important
data. Of course this should be a given with computers, always have a
complete backup, but in particular, in some cases chkdsk can cause data
corruption which can be repaired, so have that backup.

 

[Guest]

Hi

Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have all my data etc backed up on an
External HDD and I also regularly back up all my drives with Norton Ghost.

I haven't found anything not working since then so maybe it was nothing
significant.

EricG

 

[Rock]

Hi

Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have all my data etc backed up on an
External HDD and I also regularly back up all my drives with Norton Ghost.

I haven't found anything not working since then so maybe it was nothing
significant.

Great, sounds like you have a good backup program in place. The only other
thing I would suggest is to download a drive diagnostic utility from the
hard drive manufacturer's web site. This will create a boot able floppy or
CD. Boot from that and run the diagnostics to check the health of the
drive.

 

[Guest]

Try this:

At the Command Prompt type the command you are currently using for CHKDSK
e.g. CHKDSK /F and then use this switch > c:\report.txt

CHKDSK /F > report.txt

This command will create a text file at C Drive which you can later view
through Windows Explorer.

Hope this help, let us know!

 

[Guest]

Hi

I have HD Diagnostic Software and also run SpedDisc permanently which gives
SMART information but thanks for your input.

 

[Guest]

Thanks - I'll try that.
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EricG

Try this:

At the Command Prompt type the command you are currently using for CHKDSK
e.g. CHKDSK /F and then use this switch > c:\report.txt

CHKDSK /F > report.txt

This command will create a text file at C Drive which you can later view
through Windows Explorer.

Hope this help, let us know!

 

[Rock]

Hi

I have HD Diagnostic Software and also run SpedDisc permanently which
gives
SMART information but thanks for your input.

Cool, you are two steps ahead. I will stop at this point...lol