In article , on Sat, 12 Jun
2010, Andy wrote
In message , "J. P. Gilliver
(John)" wrote
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ISTR seeing files called something like chkdsk.log on my '98 machines;
IIRR, they are in the root of C: (though possibly in the root of
whatever drive you're checking). I don't see any on this XP machine,
but that could be because I might not have ever run it on here, or
because XP puts them somewhere else or calls them something less obvious.


I recall these from NT4; I think they were where chkdsk put bits of
file that it found "in use but not referenced", just in case useful
data could be recovered from them.

No, those have some other extension (I think it might be .$$$) - in '98,
anyway.

I've crossposted this to somewhere that is more likely to know the
answer (for XP, anyway).

Andy@kitzbuhel has posted the XP-relevant answer (in DIST - for MPWN, he
said "Yes, it's in the Event Viewer, Applications log. Look for the
latest Winlogon event"). Not what I guessed at all.
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