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From: james@nospam.com
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject: Re: I never see the CHKDSK results
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 03:37:23 -0600
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On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:32:17 -0500, Nil
 wrote:

>On 06 Nov 2017, Some Guy  wrote in
>microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: 
>
>> Yes it did, if your (FAT32) file tables or other stuctures needed 
>> fixing.  Checkdisk (DOS 7/8) does not fix any such problems -
>> doesn't even look for them.  Checkdisk (2K, XP, etc) - different
>> story. 
>
>Is this documented somewhere? I'm skeptical. I'm pretty certain I've 
>repaired FAT32 disks with Windows 7's CHKDSK in the past, though it was 
>quite a while ago.
>
>But besides that, the OP was comparing CHKDSK to the old DOS Scandisk 
>utility. Neither it or the DOS versions of CHKDSK could address NTFS 
>file systems, so it's not a fair comparison.
>
>> ndd.exe is another dos-level drive-checking utility that's worth
>> having and using.  The one I have in c:\windows\command is 650kb,
>> 7-28-2001. 

Yes, I was talking about SCANDISK in Win98. If we get a power outage,
when 98 starts up, it runs scandisk (unless I cancel it) and it has a
check box that allows it to automatiucally fix errors, or just tell me
about them. No need to go to the command line or any of that. It just
works and works easy. But yea, my drive in Win98 is FAT32.

I tried to run scandisk (the one from Win98) in XP once, on a NTFS
drive. That was long ago, and I cant remember just what happened. All I
do recall is that it did not work. 

Yes, I have been running CHKDSK from START, RUN.... and I created an
icon in my utilities folder to make it one click. BUt I never have seen
the results. I guess I know now to use it from the command prompt.

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