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Old December 17th 05, 05:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?
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Old December 17th 05, 06:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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check out/use Windows "help and support"!!

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Old December 17th 05, 06:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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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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Old December 18th 05, 06:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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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?

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How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?

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Old December 18th 05, 02:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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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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