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Surface scan
How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?
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Surface scan
check out/use Windows "help and support"!!
"bunky" wrote: How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks? |
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Right-click on drive - Properties - Tools - Error Checking - Check Now - Scan for and attempy recovery of bad sectors.
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Maybe I should make myself clear. I know how to run scandisk, I even know how
to run chkdsk in DOS mode on XP and have it fix errors. What I DON'T know is that either of those options actually scans the physical drive for bad sectors. With 98 it would take a long time to scan the surface, under XP it doesn't take nearly as long and I have a larger hard drive, so how do I get XP to scan the physical surface of my drives or does it do it automatically? "bunky" wrote: How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks? |
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use chkdsk /f at the command prompt. for hard disks though you may have to go
into the recovery console to do so. "bunky" wrote: Maybe I should make myself clear. I know how to run scandisk, I even know how to run chkdsk in DOS mode on XP and have it fix errors. What I DON'T know is that either of those options actually scans the physical drive for bad sectors. With 98 it would take a long time to scan the surface, under XP it doesn't take nearly as long and I have a larger hard drive, so how do I get XP to scan the physical surface of my drives or does it do it automatically? "bunky" wrote: How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks? |
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