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Drive check utility?
Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS chkdsk? One more friendly and easier to understand results? TIA -- "Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon |
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Drive check utility?
On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:24:51 -0700, KenK wrote:
Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS chkdsk? One more friendly and easier to understand results? TIA See if you can get one from the manufacturer. |
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Drive check utility?
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Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS chkdsk? One more friendly and easier to understand results? TIA CHKDSK is it. If you look for "CHKDSK Substitute" in Google, you end up with a lot of references to "surface scanners", which is not the same thing at all. Surface scanning for bad blocks, is only a small part of what CHKDSK does. ******* To find the results of CHKDSK, look in Event Viewer. Event Viewer, Winlogon entry ? http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...3-3419467f16b0 ******* Some people understand some of the limitations of CHKDSK, but their solution to the problem is entirely different. http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs...#usedfreespace * Why does CHKDSK report "free space marked as allocated in the MFT bitmap" * Why does CHKDSK report "Cleaning up XXX unused" * Why does CHKDSK report "Deleting an index entry from index $O of file 25" * Why does CHKDSK report "Correcting errors in the uppercase file" As near as I can determine, if a Tuxera driver is running, it uses runtime consistency checking to keep NTFS healthy. (Something that Windows 8 does as well). If a volume is offline, they seem to use the same sort of approach as Recuva or Photorec (scavenging). I don't get the impression there is an exact equivalent "CHKDSK" there. Years ago, someone offered a package for $100, which was supposed to be a complete NTFS implementation. (I can't remember the name of it, and I don't think it was Tuxera.) And in the feature set, it mentioned having a CHKDSK function. But the package offered no trial version, and I'm not aware of anyone buying or reviewing it. So if a true substitute exists, "it's hiding itself pretty well". The NTFSfix in Linux, all it does is set the Dirty bit, and await your next boot into Windows, to let the Windows CHKDSK do the real fixing. Paul |
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Drive check utility?
On 15 May 2014 16:24:51 GMT, KenK wrote:
Can anyone recommend a free disk drive checking utility besides DOS chkdsk? One more friendly and easier to understand results? TIA Not a recommendation, but Scandisk from Win98 will NOT work on Win2000 or XP. I tried..... I still cant understand why XP and 2000 dont have a GUI based disk scanner. Seems like another MS screwup. Chkdsk works, (I guess), because if you dont run it from a dos shell, you dont even see what it does. It's kind of funny, Starting with Win2000, MS removed Dos (for the most part) from their OS, and at the same time, resorted back to a dos based disk checker. Yet, in Win98, which was dos based, they had Scandisk, which ran both as a GUI in Windows and a command like Dos app. This dont make much sense to me...... |
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