Subj : Re: I never see the CHKDSK results To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!xmission!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!wer etis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: I never see the CHKDSK results Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 03:37:23 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <09v10ddpjv0nroeumd340sc2e03u1g0239@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134469 On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:32:17 -0500, Nil wrote: >On 06 Nov 2017, Some Guy wrote in >microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > >> Yes it did, if your (FAT32) file tables or other stuctures needed >> fixing. Checkdisk (DOS 7/8) does not fix any such problems - >> doesn't even look for them. Checkdisk (2K, XP, etc) - different >> story. > >Is this documented somewhere? I'm skeptical. I'm pretty certain I've >repaired FAT32 disks with Windows 7's CHKDSK in the past, though it was >quite a while ago. > >But besides that, the OP was comparing CHKDSK to the old DOS Scandisk >utility. Neither it or the DOS versions of CHKDSK could address NTFS >file systems, so it's not a fair comparison. > >> ndd.exe is another dos-level drive-checking utility that's worth >> having and using. The one I have in c:\windows\command is 650kb, >> 7-28-2001. Yes, I was talking about SCANDISK in Win98. If we get a power outage, when 98 starts up, it runs scandisk (unless I cancel it) and it has a check box that allows it to automatiucally fix errors, or just tell me about them. No need to go to the command line or any of that. It just works and works easy. But yea, my drive in Win98 is FAT32. I tried to run scandisk (the one from Win98) in XP once, on a NTFS drive. That was long ago, and I cant remember just what happened. All I do recall is that it did not work. Yes, I have been running CHKDSK from START, RUN.... and I created an icon in my utilities folder to make it one click. BUt I never have seen the results. I guess I know now to use it from the command prompt. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .