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Anthony Ewell
Hi All,
Is there an XP equivalent to Win 9x's scandisk
"Thorough" scan (surface scan)?
--Tony
Is there an XP equivalent to Win 9x's scandisk
"Thorough" scan (surface scan)?
--Tony
Anthony Ewell said:Hi All,
Is there an XP equivalent to Win 9x's scandisk
"Thorough" scan (surface scan)?
--Tony
Anthony Ewell said:Is there an XP equivalent to Win 9x's scandisk
Detlev Dreyer said:Start > Run:
%systemroot%\hh.exe ms-its:%systemroot%\help\ntcmds.chm::/chkdsk.htm
Kerry Brown said:Must be a Unix guy Wouldn't Start -> Run -> Help and Support -> chkdsk
be a little easier.
Kerry Brown said:Must be a Unix guy Wouldn't Start -> Run -> Help and Support ->
chkdsk be a little easier.
Detlev Dreyer said:Not really. You don't know where the OP comes from and the Help and
Support Center differs depending on the language. In German for
instance, "chkdsk" winds up with 2 hits. The first one refers to
the recovery console parameters only and therefore, I was posting
*that* way to ensure that the OP opens the other (correct) one.
Kerry Brown said:Just a bit of Saturday morning sarcasm.
Anthony said:Hi All,
Is there an XP equivalent to Win 9x's scandisk
"Thorough" scan (surface scan)?
--Tony
Anthony Ewell said:Hi All,
I posted the above in a different posting. I got
a lot of hits but no one directly answered the
question. I was told to look up the options
on chkdsk and to use the /r option.
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable
information (implies /F).
Question: is "chkdsk /r" a surface scan? And, is
it equivalent to 9x's scandisk "Thorough" scan?
It really sounds to me like they are not the same
thing; sounds like it is looking for errors in
active data, not both data and empty space.
For one thing, scandisk's "Thorough"? takes
10 time as long.
Please enlighten me.
Many thanks,
--Tony
Kerry said:Chkdsk /r does the same thing as scandisk with the thorough option. With
modern drives if you are seeing bad sectors the drive is probably no good
and should be replaced. Modern drives have replacement sectors they use
automatically. Windows (and the user) don't see this until all the spares
are used. The price of drives has come down to where you have to make a
judgement call on what your data is worth to you. With large drives under
$150.00 how much time do you want to spend when the drive ultimately fails
and you have to rebuild your file system? If chkdsk /r finds bad sectors I
would recommend downloading the usually free diagnostic software from the
manufacturer of your hard drive and test the drive. Be sure to back up your
data first. The act of testing can sometimes cause a marginal drive to fail.
Kerry
Richard said:You asked a question about what was equivelent to scandisk surface scan. You
got your answer. Now you are fighting and questioning further.
Go find a better answer yourself!
Thank you for the excellent answer. I have used the "/r"
option frequently but have never seen any errors on the
last pass (open space). The drives worked a lot better
afterwards. This explains it.
It is also nice to know that (S)ATA's are automatically
swapping out bad sectors.
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