What exactly does Checkdisk do?

[JM]

Lately I've worked on several problematic computers, and in each case the
problems were resolved with the Checkdisk utility. Tonight a computer would
not boot to Windows in any mode. I removed its hard drive, slaved it to
another XP computer, and ran checkdisk on it with the option to fix the
problems. Afterwards I reinstalled the hard drive and the computer ran
fine.

What exactly is chkdsk doing? Whatever the case, it seems to be a very
powerful (and immensely useful) tool. Given the fact that three computers
I've worked on lately would not boot to Windows, I'm not sure what I would
have done without it.

jm

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hello,

A bit more info about the Chekdsk.exe utility in Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chkdsk.mspx

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[S.Sengupta]

It is a command-line tool that checks volumes for problems. The tool
then tries to repair any that it finds.

To know more:-
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]