Scan Disk

[Terry]

I brought my sister's computer home to try to clean it. She has a log
on for her and her two rug rats. This is something I never used.
Anyway, I ran scan disk. It said to reboot and start. I did. The
screen gave some message like scanning disk. press a key to abort in
30 seconds

I left the computer. When I came back I was looking at the log on
screen.

I have no way to tell if scan disk actually did anything. When I
logged back into her name I had no status report at all. I had ran the
scan to automatically fix stuff.

Can I be sure it did what it did?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

It is called Error Checking and the file is chkdsk.exe. There is no
scandisk in Windows XP.

For a look at the chkdsk log.

Open the Event Viewer...
Start | Run | Type: eventvwr | Click OK |
Look in Application | Listed as Information |
Event ID: 1001
Source: Winlogon
[[Description: This includes file system type; drive letter or GUID, and
volume name or serial number to help determine what volume Chkdsk ran
against. Also included is whether Chkdsk ran because a user scheduled it or
because the dirty bit was set.]]

[[When Autochk runs against a volume at boot time it records its output to a
file called Bootex.log in the root of the volume being checked. The Winlogon
service then moves the contents of each Bootex.log file to the Application
Event log.]]

[[This file states whether Chkdsk encountered any errors and, if so,
whether they were fixed.]]

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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