chkdsk results not recorded

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Harlan

You might see chkdsk report that corrections have been
made to the disk at startup and see that some directory
was entirely unreadable, but it's too quick to see and
there's no way to pause it. There is no information in the
event logs or any new .log files anywhere.

Is there any way to configure chkdsk (after a dirty
shutdown) to log it's findings so we know what to restore?
 
The results should be in the the application log of the Event Viewer
snap-in. Autochk information is logged by the Winlogon service, so look for
entries with Winlogon listed as the source of the entry.
 
During the character based portion of startup when chkdsk
checks the drive after a dirty shutdown (or if it just
feels like it), it may report that it has made changes to
the disk. In one case it reported a folder entirely
unreadable and I manageded to see it before it disappeared
and was able to restore the missing files in that folder.

There is no 'autochk" entry in either Application or
System logs. There are "disk" entires in the system log
reporting a bad block and a manual chkdsk reveals one bad
cluster but I have had that bad cluster since day one.

Is there a switch I can add to autocheck during startup to
report it's findings or a way to capture screen output
from the pre GUI chkdsk?
 
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