How To Run chkdsk On A Schedule?

Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

There's actually quite a valid reason why I want to do this on an external
USB hard disk. I hope this response from David Candy won't put off others who
genuinely want to help.

"David Candy" wrote:

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

Well what is it to do something so stupid.

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There's actually quite a valid reason why I want to do this on an external
USB hard disk. I hope this response from David Candy won't put off others who
genuinely want to help.

"David Candy" wrote:

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

You want to lose your data do you.

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There's actually quite a valid reason why I want to do this on an external
USB hard disk. I hope this response from David Candy won't put off others who
genuinely want to help.

"David Candy" wrote:

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

David, I don't want your help, please don't respond to this post anymore.

"David Candy" wrote:

Well what is it to do something so stupid.

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There's actually quite a valid reason why I want to do this on an external
USB hard disk. I hope this response from David Candy won't put off others who
genuinely want to help.

"David Candy" wrote:

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

Don't post here then moron.
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David, I don't want your help, please don't respond to this post anymore.

"David Candy" wrote:

Well what is it to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
There's actually quite a valid reason why I want to do this on an external
USB hard disk. I hope this response from David Candy won't put off others who
genuinely want to help.

"David Candy" wrote:

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

Dell Boy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

As David suggested this is not a recommended thing to do. Running chkdsk can
sometimes cause more problems than it solves. It is not normally run unless
a problem is indicated in the event logs or by a Windows error message.
Perhaps if you tell us what you want to accomplish by running chkdsk so
often someone could suggest an alternative procedure.

Have you tried Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel?

Kerry

Kerry, thanks for your reply.

I have an external USB hard drive to which a backup utility outputs large
compressed images of various hard disk partitions on a daily basis. Every so
often Win XP Pro logs an error for this drive in the System Event log and
says that chkdsk should be run on it. I then run chkdsk /r on the drive but
the status report is always healthy, no bad sectors are reported and no file
repair is carried out. Once I've run chkdsk the OS is happy again.

I would like to automate the running of chkdsk, hence my request in this post.

With regard to task scheduler, I don't know how to use it to schedule
command line utilties with paramaters.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Dell Boy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

As David suggested this is not a recommended thing to do. Running chkdsk can
sometimes cause more problems than it solves. It is not normally run unless
a problem is indicated in the event logs or by a Windows error message.
Perhaps if you tell us what you want to accomplish by running chkdsk so
often someone could suggest an alternative procedure.

Have you tried Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel?

Kerry

Dave. do you call everyone a moron that isn't as smart AS you think you are?

"David Candy" wrote:

Don't post here then moron.
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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
David, I don't want your help, please don't respond to this post anymore.

"David Candy" wrote:

Well what is it to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
There's actually quite a valid reason why I want to do this on an external
USB hard disk. I hope this response from David Candy won't put off others who
genuinely want to help.

"David Candy" wrote:

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

Dell Boy wrote:
Kerry, thanks for your reply.

I have an external USB hard drive to which a backup utility outputs
large compressed images of various hard disk partitions on a daily
basis. Every so often Win XP Pro logs an error for this drive in the
System Event log and says that chkdsk should be run on it. I then run
chkdsk /r on the drive but the status report is always healthy, no
bad sectors are reported and no file repair is carried out. Once I've
run chkdsk the OS is happy again.

I would like to automate the running of chkdsk, hence my request in
this post.

With regard to task scheduler, I don't know how to use it to schedule
command line utilties with paramaters.


Rather than treating a symptom you should look for the cause. Here is a link
that will help you with chkdsk.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_defrag.htm

Here is a link to help you with task scheduler

http://support.microsoft.com/default...308569&sd=tech

I've never tried to schedule chkdsk and don't recommend it. I don't know if
it will work. Make sure you use an account with administrator permissions
(in itself a reason not to do this) and that the account has a password.
Accounts without passwords will work with scheduled tasks.

Again, you would be much better off to find out why you are getting these
errors in the logs. It may be you are treating a symptom of a much deeper
problem that bite you some day. It may be a communications issue with the
external drive, a drive going bad, etc.. At the very least make sure you
verify your backups.

Kerry


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Dell Boy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

As David suggested this is not a recommended thing to do. Running
chkdsk can sometimes cause more problems than it solves. It is not
normally run unless a problem is indicated in the event logs or by a
Windows error message. Perhaps if you tell us what you want to
accomplish by running chkdsk so often someone could suggest an
alternative procedure.

Have you tried Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel?

Kerry

Hit send too fast :-)

Make that

Accounts without passwords will NOT work with the Task Scheduler.

Kerry

Kerry Brown wrote:
Dell Boy wrote:
Kerry, thanks for your reply.

I have an external USB hard drive to which a backup utility outputs
large compressed images of various hard disk partitions on a daily
basis. Every so often Win XP Pro logs an error for this drive in the
System Event log and says that chkdsk should be run on it. I then run
chkdsk /r on the drive but the status report is always healthy, no
bad sectors are reported and no file repair is carried out. Once I've
run chkdsk the OS is happy again.

I would like to automate the running of chkdsk, hence my request in
this post.

With regard to task scheduler, I don't know how to use it to schedule
command line utilties with paramaters.


Rather than treating a symptom you should look for the cause. Here is
a link that will help you with chkdsk.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_defrag.htm

Here is a link to help you with task scheduler

http://support.microsoft.com/default...308569&sd=tech

I've never tried to schedule chkdsk and don't recommend it. I don't
know if it will work. Make sure you use an account with administrator
permissions (in itself a reason not to do this) and that the account
has a password. Accounts without passwords will work with scheduled
tasks.
Again, you would be much better off to find out why you are getting
these errors in the logs. It may be you are treating a symptom of a
much deeper problem that bite you some day. It may be a
communications issue with the external drive, a drive going bad,
etc.. At the very least make sure you verify your backups.

Kerry


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Dell Boy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

As David suggested this is not a recommended thing to do. Running
chkdsk can sometimes cause more problems than it solves. It is not
normally run unless a problem is indicated in the event logs or by a
Windows error message. Perhaps if you tell us what you want to
accomplish by running chkdsk so often someone could suggest an
alternative procedure.

Have you tried Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel?

Kerry

Yep. It's my favourite word. I use it far more frequently than idiot or cretin.

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"Dixonian69" wrote in message ...
Dave. do you call everyone a moron that isn't as smart AS you think you are?

"David Candy" wrote:

Don't post here then moron.
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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
David, I don't want your help, please don't respond to this post anymore.

"David Candy" wrote:

Well what is it to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
There's actually quite a valid reason why I want to do this on an external
USB hard disk. I hope this response from David Candy won't put off others who
genuinely want to help.

"David Candy" wrote:

Why would you want to do something so stupid.

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"Dell Boy" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

I take your point about the sceduling and on reflection it may be a bad idea.

With regard to a deeper problem, I appreciate what you say. This has been
happening for around 15 months or so on three different manufacturer's hard
drives attached to three different computers all backing up using Norton
Ghost 9.0 (I use this method myself and at two client's premises). None of
these drives have failed or had any problems to date. I think the sheer size
of the backups may affect the indexing in some way.

De-fragging would probably help a lot but because of the sheer size of the
backup files on the disk it isn't practical, even with Diskeeper. (I realise
it would be better to backup to tape.)

I switched on automatic verification when I set up the backups.

Thank you for your advice.


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Dell Boy wrote:
Kerry, thanks for your reply.

I have an external USB hard drive to which a backup utility outputs
large compressed images of various hard disk partitions on a daily
basis. Every so often Win XP Pro logs an error for this drive in the
System Event log and says that chkdsk should be run on it. I then run
chkdsk /r on the drive but the status report is always healthy, no
bad sectors are reported and no file repair is carried out. Once I've
run chkdsk the OS is happy again.

I would like to automate the running of chkdsk, hence my request in
this post.

With regard to task scheduler, I don't know how to use it to schedule
command line utilties with paramaters.


Rather than treating a symptom you should look for the cause. Here is a link
that will help you with chkdsk.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_defrag.htm

Here is a link to help you with task scheduler

http://support.microsoft.com/default...308569&sd=tech

I've never tried to schedule chkdsk and don't recommend it. I don't know if
it will work. Make sure you use an account with administrator permissions
(in itself a reason not to do this) and that the account has a password.
Accounts without passwords will work with scheduled tasks.

Again, you would be much better off to find out why you are getting these
errors in the logs. It may be you are treating a symptom of a much deeper
problem that bite you some day. It may be a communications issue with the
external drive, a drive going bad, etc.. At the very least make sure you
verify your backups.

Kerry


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Dell Boy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

As David suggested this is not a recommended thing to do. Running
chkdsk can sometimes cause more problems than it solves. It is not
normally run unless a problem is indicated in the event logs or by a
Windows error message. Perhaps if you tell us what you want to
accomplish by running chkdsk so often someone could suggest an
alternative procedure.

Have you tried Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel?

Kerry

Dell Boy wrote:
I take your point about the sceduling and on reflection it may be a
bad idea.

With regard to a deeper problem, I appreciate what you say. This has
been happening for around 15 months or so on three different
manufacturer's hard drives attached to three different computers all
backing up using Norton Ghost 9.0 (I use this method myself and at
two client's premises). None of these drives have failed or had any
problems to date. I think the sheer size of the backups may affect
the indexing in some way.

De-fragging would probably help a lot but because of the sheer size
of the backup files on the disk it isn't practical, even with
Diskeeper. (I realise it would be better to backup to tape.)

I switched on automatic verification when I set up the backups.

Thank you for your advice.

Your welcome.

Is write caching turned on for the drives? Sometimes this can cause
intermittant problems with external drives. As long as the verify works it
may just be a cosmetic issue What is the actual error?

Kerry


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Dell Boy wrote:
Kerry, thanks for your reply.

I have an external USB hard drive to which a backup utility outputs
large compressed images of various hard disk partitions on a daily
basis. Every so often Win XP Pro logs an error for this drive in the
System Event log and says that chkdsk should be run on it. I then
run chkdsk /r on the drive but the status report is always healthy,
no bad sectors are reported and no file repair is carried out. Once
I've run chkdsk the OS is happy again.

I would like to automate the running of chkdsk, hence my request in
this post.

With regard to task scheduler, I don't know how to use it to
schedule command line utilties with paramaters.


Rather than treating a symptom you should look for the cause. Here
is a link that will help you with chkdsk.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_defrag.htm

Here is a link to help you with task scheduler

http://support.microsoft.com/default...308569&sd=tech

I've never tried to schedule chkdsk and don't recommend it. I don't
know if it will work. Make sure you use an account with
administrator permissions (in itself a reason not to do this) and
that the account has a password. Accounts without passwords will
work with scheduled tasks.

Again, you would be much better off to find out why you are getting
these errors in the logs. It may be you are treating a symptom of a
much deeper problem that bite you some day. It may be a
communications issue with the external drive, a drive going bad,
etc.. At the very least make sure you verify your backups.

Kerry


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Dell Boy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to run chkdsk /r automatically (weekly)?

As David suggested this is not a recommended thing to do. Running
chkdsk can sometimes cause more problems than it solves. It is not
normally run unless a problem is indicated in the event logs or by
a Windows error message. Perhaps if you tell us what you want to
accomplish by running chkdsk so often someone could suggest an
alternative procedure.

Have you tried Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel?

Kerry