Windows-related alert!
Waccoon wrote:
man, checkdisk.. THAT is long ago
Windows XP still uses it. In fact, "chkdsk c: /f"
Err. chkdsk for NTx is very very different from the old DOS checkdisk/scandisk. What you've said is like saying "WinXP still uses MS-DOS because you can type 'DIR' at a command prompt and it works".
And that's without going into NTFS vs. FATxx, the fact that NTx uses a different kernel to Win9x/DOS, etc etc...
Also, there are two ways of checking disks in WinNTx (as in, NT4,Win2k,XP and later):
* Get a command prompt up, type chkdsk driveletter: /r
* Go into My Computer, pick a disk, Properties, Tools, Check Now, tick what options you want. Ticking both does the equivalent of a chkdsk /r.
chkdsk /r does a complete check of the disk. /f is more of a filesystem check rather than filesystem + bad sector check.
For more useful information, you can do:
chkdsk C: /v /r
Which gives more verbose output as to what is going on.
I normally go for the command line version because it gives more useful information. Also, chances are that Windows will ask you to restart the computer so it can do it in a more isolated/single-user'y mode. It logs what it has done in the event log > App Log, under source 'Winlogon'.
If you want to do a quick, useful disk check and stay in Windows: chkdsk driveletter:
. It'll tell you if it needs you to do a full disk check. It's kind of a light, read-only, filesystem-only chkdsk.
