Hello mark,

    Responding to a post in the 4DOS area:
    On Tuesday August 10 2004 at 09:29,
    mark lewis [1:3634/12] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: CheckDrive BTM

 GM>> Would someone please post the CHK_DRV.BTM written by
 GM>> Christopher Greaves Sunday, February 26, 1995?  My
 GM>> copy got corrupted and my backup copy is also ruined.

 ml> sorry, i don't have it and can't seem to locate it on the 'net
 ml> anywhere...

I likewise couldn't find a reference to the BTM _or_ the author on the net.

I did find a "munged" version on an old floppy diskette and it looks like I
was attempting to modify it for some reason or other...  I'll post what I
have and maybe some people can jump in to get it cleaned up / improved.

=== Begin cut: CHK_DRV.BTM ===
::   CHEcKDRIVe Christopher Greaves Sunday, February 26, 1995
::      Check the status of a nominated disk drive.
::      Assumes DOS is on the path
::      [trash] may point to a directory
::                                     (default: not used)
::      [netw] may point to a drive where the root belongs to us
::                                     (default: not used)
::      [date] may be set to a valid XCOPY date string
::                                     (default: not used)
::      [log] may be set to a logfile.
::                                     (default: C:\%0.LOG)
::      [debug] may be set to ON or OFF
::                                     (default: OFF)

::      Log on to the drive
setlocal
break on
on break goto end
on error (qedit /n%_batchline %{at}search[%0] %+ quit)
::      Verify parameters
if      "%1"=="" goto 90help

set drive=%1
set ram=g:
%{at}upper[%drive%]:
if exist %{at}upper[%drive%]:\scandisk.log del/q %=
 %{at}upper[%drive%]:\scandisk.log
if exist %ram%\chekdriv.log del/q %ram%\chekdriv.log
if exist %ram%\chkdrv.log del/q %ram%\chkdrv.log
if      "%debug%"=="" set debug=off
echo %debug%
if      "%log%"=="" set log=%ram%\chekdriv.log
echo %{at}upper[%0] Logged on to drive %{at}upper[%drive%]: %=
 | tee /a %log%
echo %{at}upper[%0] Find File Allocation Table problems | tee /a %log%
if      exist   %ram%\chk.$*  del/q   %ram%\chk.$*
chkdsk  /f      >       %ram%\chk.$1
find    "non-contiguous"        %ram%\chk.$$2
find    "lost clusters"         %ram%\chk.$$3
find    "cross-linked"          %ram%\chk.$$4
copy    %ram%\chk.$$*         %ram%\chk.$5  >%ram%:\TEMP.MSG
if      not exist       %ram%\chk.$5  goto    20NoProblem
echo    %{at}upper[%0] - chkdsk reports problems
more    <       %ram%\chk.$1
echo.

:20NoProblem
echo %{at}upper[%0] Check available disk space | tee /a %log%
echo.
find <%ram%\chk.$1 "bytes available" | tee /a %log%
find <%ram%\chk.$1 "bytes total disk" | tee /a %log%
if      exist   %ram%\chk.$*  del/q   %ram%\chk.$*
echo %{at}upper[%0] Locate permanent swap files | tee /a %log%
dir \   /ah/s | find "PAR" >erase1
copy erase1+erase1 erase3 >%ram%:\TEMP.MSG
if exist erase3 set permswap=%permswap%P
dir \   /ah/s | find "SWP" >erase2
copy erase2+erase2 erase4 >%ram%:\TEMP.MSG
if exist erase4 set permswap=%permswap%S
echo %{at}upper[%0] Permanent swap file collection %permswap% %=
 | tee /a %log%
if exist erase? del/q erase?
echo %{at}upper[%0] Copy Trash (deleted) files to the network for %=
 backup | tee /a %log%
if "%trash%"==""         goto 40Exit
if not exist %trash%\nul goto 40Exit
cd      %trash%
if not exist *.*         goto 40Exit
if "%netw%"==""          goto 40exit
xcopy   . %netw%\
for     %%a in (*.*) do if exist %netw%\%%a del/q %%a

:40Exit
echo %{at}upper[%0] Copy changed files to the network drive for %=
 backup | tee /a %log%
if "%netw%"==""          goto 60exit
if not exist %netw%\nul  goto 60exit
xcopy   %{at}upper[%drive%]:\ %netw%\ /s/e/m

:60Exit
echo %{at}upper[%0] Locate changed files | tee /a %log%
attrib %{at}upper[%drive%]:*.* /s | find " A " | tee /a %log%
echo %{at}upper[%0] Purging TEMP and BAcKup directories | tee /a %log%
if "%date%"==""         goto 80Exit
if exist %temp%\*.* attrib -r %temp%\.
if exist %bak%\*.* attrib -r %bak%\.
if exist %bak%\*.* xcopy %bak%\. %temp% /c:%date%
if exist %bak%\*.* del/q %bak%
if exist %temp%\*.* xcopy %temp% %bak% /c:%date%
if exist %temp%\*.* del/q %temp%
dir %bak% /od

:80EXit
echo %{at}upper[%0] Defragmenting this drive %1>>%log%
defrag %1 /f /se

:50Scan
echo %{at}upper[%0] Scanning drive %{at}upper[%drive%]: | tee /a %log%
c:\dos\scandisk %{at}upper[%drive%]: /autofix /surface /nosummary
goto 99exit

:90help
echo. %+ echo.
echo   %{at}upper[%0] - Use as : %{at}upper[%0] c:
delay 5
goto end

:99exit
copy/q %ram%\chekdriv.log %_boot:\scandisk.log %ram%\chkdrv.log
if exist %_boot:\scandisk.log del/q %_boot:\scandisk.log
if exist %ram%\chekdriv.log del/q %ram%\chekdriv.log
if exist %ram%\chkdrv.log del/q %ram%\chkdrv.log

:end
endlocal
=== End cut:   CHK_DRV.BTM ===

As you can see, Christopher was not very detailed with the docs...

The main reason I wanted this BTM was to hack apart the CHKDSK section.  I
don't particularly like doing an indiscriminate CHKDSK /F because I prefer
to know if chkdsk found a problem first (and what particular problem) and
then determine if the "/F" will correct the problem(s)...

Also, depending on the severity of the problem, it may not be entirely
necessary to run SCANDISK. ???

           Cheers ... Gerald

... One day, I may actually understand all this techie stuff......
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