Scandisk

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Hi!

Two ways:

Right-click a drive in "My Computer", choose Properties, navigate to the
"Tools" tab. Click the "Check Now..." button. This will perform a fairly
quick check of your drive. I don't think it is very effective...I have never
seen it return or repair errors on a volume that had problems.

You can also run CHKDSK from the command line. This is a much more thorough
test and it will/can find, report and even correct most disk errors. If you
try to run it on the drive you boot up from, or any drive that CHKDSK cannot
"lock" for exclusive access, you will have to schedule it to run when you
reboot OR stop all other programs and processes from using files on the
volume you want to check.

William
 
Greetings --

Win2K does not have a program called "Scandisk," as this was a
Win9x/Me program. Instead, because Win2K is descended from the
WinNT OS family, it has a command line utility called "Chkdsk,"
which performs much better, as it's not burdened with presenting a
pretty picture of moving blocks of color while it's working.

Start > Run > Chkdsk.exe /? for the correct syntax and available
options.

Alternatively, double-click My Computer > right-click the desired
hard drive > Properties > Tools > Error-checking/Check Now. This will
run Chkdsk, normally on the next reboot.


Bruce Chambers

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