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On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 03:23:11 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> wrote:

>In message <ottq7j0a1e@enews6.newsguy.com>, Ben Myers 
><benjmyers@REMOVEmyactv.net> writes:
>>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
>>
>I think he _was_ running it via Start | Run - that's the problem; it 
>closes the window when it's finished, before you have a chance to see 
>the summary. As others have said, run it from a command prompt (either 
>Start | Run | "cmd" or Start | Prograns | Accessories | Command Prompt), 
>then the window will stay open when it's finished. (Close either by 
>clicking the X as usual, or typing "exit".) But as others have also 
>said, it won't necessarily run on the disc (or partition) the OS is on.

If you do this a lot you can just create an icon on the desktop.
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