Subj : Re: I never see the CHKDSK results To : All From : gfretwell@aol.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org !feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-medi a.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.n ntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2. nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:20:48 -0600 From: gfretwell@aol.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: I never see the CHKDSK results Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:20:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <09v10ddpjv0nroeumd340sc2e03u1g0239@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 11 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Pp93lnN0myalEhDriVLDkGcK/k9ZoTJEzez39UCxzzHla62UY69yheYq5Bby6f943SQNVW6ut9y qOL3!ozqNM7TWGtKxjgSCyJMTIp3JQojHTyFeR3IRfmt66pkuRWxt01k+6OvdZnG0UC+KnUSz7zI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1546 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1349988209 X-Received-Bytes: 1789 Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134447 On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:26:31 -0600, james@nospam.com wrote: >CHKDSK seems to run in a DOS prompt, and as soon as it finishes, it >closes that dos window and I never see the results of the check. Whoever >designed this is an idiot. The old Win9x Scandisk worked 100% better. > Did you open the command prompt from the start/program/accessories tab. I just did it and the screen stayed open giving me the regular report when it was done. If you do it from the run bar it will close when it stops --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .