Subj : Re: I never see the CHKDSK results To : All From : benjmyers@REMOVEmyactv.net Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org !feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com! peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-me dia.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!ex tra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews6 From: Ben Myers Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: I never see the CHKDSK results Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:26:49 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <09v10ddpjv0nroeumd340sc2e03u1g0239@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pbb4eb4bbabf55680c8be1a956f672df8206a0b8d27028684046f2341b81110950aec3d9300daf7 b6.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 In-Reply-To: <09v10ddpjv0nroeumd340sc2e03u1g0239@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Received-Bytes: 1374 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3191265533 Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134466 On 11/6/2017 7:26 PM, 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. Click "Start", "Run", type "cmd /k chkdsk /f" into the "Open" box and click "OK". If you just want chkdsk to scan for errors and not actually perform repairs, leave off the "/f" switch. To stop the scan, press Ctrl-C. Ben --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .