Use of WinME Scandisk and Defrag on WinXP

D

Don.

Is it safe to use the WinME versions of Scandisk and Defrag on an XP
machine?

AND can I simply copy them from a WinME machine with no problem?

These questions are really as simple as that...I hope. ;-)

Thanks...
 
J

John Barnett MVP

No. Scandisk doesn't work on XP and why would you want to copy them anyway?
For scandisk you use chkdsk in XP. Just click on the start button click all
programs then accessories and from ther drop down menu click command prompt.
In the command prompt window type chkdsk and then click ok.
Defrag, as you probably know is available from
start>allprograms>accessories>system tools>dosk defragmenter. Alternatively
you can access defrag from control panel>administartive tools>computer
management.
 
K

Ken Blake

In
Don. said:
Is it safe to use the WinME versions of Scandisk and Defrag on
an XP
machine?

AND can I simply copy them from a WinME machine with no
problem?
Click to expand...


I've never tried, so I don't know for sure, but I would strongly
guess that the answer is no. Certainly if your drive is NTFS,
Windows Me Defrag would either not work at all, or would clobber
the drive.

Why would you want to do this, rather than using the tools that
come with Windows XP (or in the case of Defrag, one of the better
third-party ones) and are designed for it? In my view, it's just
looking for trouble.
 
D

Don.

Ken said:
In



I've never tried, so I don't know for sure, but I would strongly
guess that the answer is no. Certainly if your drive is NTFS,
Windows Me Defrag would either not work at all, or would clobber
the drive.

Why would you want to do this, rather than using the tools that
come with Windows XP (or in the case of Defrag, one of the better
third-party ones) and are designed for it? In my view, it's just
looking for trouble.
Click to expand...

OK. Off they go into the wild blue yonder. :)

Thanks...
 
G

Guest

Reason #1: GUI
Reason #2: GUI
Reason #3: GUI
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Reason #8,417: GUI


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
Click to expand...

Is a GUI really better than typing something like "chkdsk C:" into the Run
box? Or, to have it pause so you can read the output, "cmd /k chkdsk c:".

Don't let the name fool you - chkdsk under WinXP is not the same thing at
all as chkdsk under Win9x, the job it does is more like what scandisk did.

You can start disk checking via a GUI type of thing by right-clicking on a
drive in Explorer and selecting Properties/Tools/Error-Checking. The
resulting GUI looks sort of like the one in Win9x - but if you ask it to
fix errors instead of just scanning for them, it will probably tell you you
need to reboot to do this (for the system drive, anyway).

The defrag utility in WinXP IS a GUI, and works better than the defrag in
Win9x, so I would see no need to use an older version of defrag.
You can get various third-party defragmenters for WinXP, but I personally
have never seen a need for this (or usually for defragmenting at all in the
first place, at least on NTFS).
 

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