scandisk log file

[Francis W. Yun]

Every once in awhile, when an error occurs and I'm booting up the
computer again, the computer runs a scandisk on one or more of my
drives. I can't seem to find a log file and I've looked at the ususal
suspects (c:\, c:\windows, searching for anything ending in .log, etc)

Am I just not looking in the right place? Is scandisk not leaving a log
file and I just need to change a setting somewhere? Does scandisk
simplye not leave a log file at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Francis

 

[Francis W. Yun]

Sorry, I'm using Windows XP, Home Edition

thanks again

Francis

 

[Russ]

Double click mycomputer right click C: drive select properties,click Disk
Cleanup. That will reveal the file to you along with other junk file which
are safe to delete and you can do so by putting a tick in the boxes.

 

[Carrie Garth]

| message | Every once in awhile, when an error occurs and I'm booting up the
| computer again, the computer runs a scandisk on one or more of my
| drives. I can't seem to find a log file <SNIP>

If by writing "scandisk" you mean chkdsk. Then look in the
Application Log of Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc).

Type: Information
Source: Winlogon
Event: 1001

 

[Francis W. Yun]

EUREKA!!!

Thankyou so very much!!!

Just curious . . . I remember a long time ago it going from chkdsk to
scandisk . . . when did it go back to chkdsk?


Francis

 

[NobodyMan]

EUREKA!!!

Thankyou so very much!!!

Just curious . . . I remember a long time ago it going from chkdsk to
scandisk . . . when did it go back to chkdsk?


Francis

It never "went back" to chkdsk. XP is a member of the NT architecture
OS family, which have always used chkdsk and NEVER used scandisk.
Scandisk was used in win98 and IIRC WinME.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Double click mycomputer right click C: drive select properties,click Disk
Cleanup. That will reveal the file to you along with other junk file which
are safe to delete and you can do so by putting a tick in the boxes.

No it won't. Did you read the original post? They are looking for the
disk error check log. Disk Cleanup doesn't have anything to do with
that. It is in Event Viewer, Application, listed in a Winlogon entry.

Steve

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Thankyou so very much!!!

Just curious . . . I remember a long time ago it going from chkdsk to
scandisk . . . when did it go back to chkdsk?

It's not really that it went "back" to chkdsk. Chkdsk was the
name of the program used in DOS, and Scandisk was the name of
that used in Windows 9X. But all members of the Windows NT family
(including 2000 and XP) have also always used chkdsk.