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From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" 
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Subject: Re: I never see the CHKDSK results
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 03:23:11 +0000
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In message , Ben Myers 
 writes:
>On 11/6/2017 7:26 PM, james{at}nospam.com wrote:
>> CHKDSK seems to run in a DOS prompt, and as soon as it finishes, it
>> closes that dos window and I never see the results of the check. Whoever
>> designed this is an idiot. The old Win9x Scandisk worked 100% better.
>
>Click "Start", "Run", type "cmd  /k  chkdsk 
/f" into the "Open" box and
>click "OK".  If you just want chkdsk to scan for errors and
not actually
>perform repairs, leave off the "/f" switch.  To stop the
scan, press Ctrl-C.
>
>Ben
>
I think he _was_ running it via Start | Run - that's the problem; it 
closes the window when it's finished, before you have a chance to see 
the summary. As others have said, run it from a command prompt (either 
Start | Run | "cmd" or Start | Prograns | Accessories | Command Prompt), 
then the window will stay open when it's finished. (Close either by 
clicking the X as usual, or typing "exit".) But as others have also 
said, it won't necessarily run on the disc (or partition) the OS is on.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar{at}T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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