man, checkdisk.. THAT is long ago
Windows XP still uses it. In fact, "chkdsk c: /f" is the ONLY way to fix a hard drive. The GUI version of chkdsk is useless as it
skips over errors if it can't lock exclusive access to the drive (which is always the case with C:).
It is not a good idea to use two different programes like that, you risk data loss.
Yeah, I found out the hard way. I used a Win2K boot disk to repair an NT4 partition, and the next thing I knew, the NT4 version of chkdsk wouldn't work anymore since the drive had been "updated" with a newer version of NTFS. What a pain!
I blamed Microsoft at first, but then I realized that many OSes do the same damn thing.
OFS and FFS shouldn't have THAT problem, but touching the RDB could be an issue.
Does Workbench report errors on the drive?
Yeah, courtesy of the Neverending Requester. :-)
SFS (Smart File System) is better to use than FFS, no more invalid hard drives!
Anything is better than OFS/FFS.
I wish it would do an MSDOS style Defrag too, ReOrg 3.11 (patched) is horribly unreliable and has destroyed my files on many an occasion!
He's right. If ReOrg runs out of memory or caches too many files, it barfs and leaves you with an invalid hard drive. ALWAYS back up your drive, first. ReOrg is NOT the same calibre as defrag utils you get with Windows. Period.
A good filesystem doesn't get fragmented in the first place, which is why BeOS didn't have a defrag utility.
I have used DiskSalv as well, and that is a very good tool likewise.
I'd do a standard filecopy to any medium possible before running DiskSalv. For some reason, DiskSalv
always locks up every time I try to scan my 85 Meg drive, and I'm worried it'll do more harm than good, since my drive is healthy as it is.
That's why I liked the MSDOS ScanDisk because it would show little circles and squares and automatically map out surface trouble such as bad blocks.
Scandisk was actually written by Symantec, which is why it rocked. I was very upset when I found newer versions of Windows went back to sucky old chkdsk.
I think I'll go against the grain and say that I never liked disksalv. I don't think it's very intuitive or actually very working.
I agree. I especially hated the fact that "Verify" and "Salvage" both wrote to the drive, making it a very destructive program (destructive, in the sense that it would risk losing data just from normal investigative operation).
