What happened to Scandisk?

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Is there an XP analog to Scandisk? Or is this no longer
necessary in XP for some reason?

Tpayne
 
Tpayne said:
Is there an XP analog to Scandisk? Or is this no longer
necessary in XP for some reason?

Tpayne
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If you open the drive you want to use scandisk on, right click on
properties,
click on the tools tab at the top, you will see error checking, Click on
check now, and in the next menu choose either.....
1- Automatically fix file system errors
2- Scan and attempt recovery of bad sectors.
No 1 being the favourite
click start and you will get a pop-up stating that scandisk will have to run
the next time you start your computer, click yes and reboot/restart your
machine.
Scandisk will then run in the bott-up process.
Wizard
 
Wizard said:
If you open the drive you want to use scandisk on, right click on
properties,
click on the tools tab at the top, you will see error checking, Click
on check now, and in the next menu choose either.....
1- Automatically fix file system errors
2- Scan and attempt recovery of bad sectors.
No 1 being the favourite
click start and you will get a pop-up stating that scandisk will have
to run the next time you start your computer, click yes and
reboot/restart your machine.
Scandisk will then run in the bott-up process.
Wizard
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"scandisk" is a Windows 9x/ME program. In NT and Windows XP, we use
"chkdsk"
 
-----Original Message-----
Is there an XP analog to Scandisk? Or is this no longer
necessary in XP for some reason?

Tpayne
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Hey buddy not sure if this will help but the way to "scan-
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disk" for XP is.... double click on my computer....Right-
Click on "Local-Disk (C:) ... click on "property's" ...
then choose the tools Tab...and U will find "SCAN-DISK"...
That's the only way I know to get to it :-) on
Windows XP :-)
 
MARKIDAHO said:
disk" for XP is.... double click on my computer....Right-
Click on "Local-Disk (C:) ... click on "property's" ...
then choose the tools Tab...and U will find "SCAN-DISK"...
That's the only way I know to get to it :-) on
Windows XP :-)
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No, you WON'T find 'Scan-Disk'. You will find an option to "Check disk for
errors" (which is the GUI front-end for "chkdsk")

Again, "scandisk" is a Windows 9x/ME program. NT and XP use "chkdsk". You
will also have to reboot for the command to be carried out once it is
selected.
 
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