TSGL: Question about Windows "CheckDisk"

[Ron Brunton]

When Windows is using files and maintaining control over the file system at
a low level, other programs are denied access. The only way for chkdsk to
make changes to any of the Windows system files or recover files or fix the
hard drive is to do so when Windows is not using them. Thus, it must be run
before Windows takes over.

HTH

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Ray
Sent: October 22, 2006 3:00 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Question about Windows "CheckDisk"

John,

I guess what I was really wondering about was why one option can run within
Windows and the other requires a Reboot.  Sorry, if I didn't make that
clear. 

I've been meaning to learn to use the Recovery Console, anyway, so now I
have a good reason. Thank you for this information!

Regards,
Ray

jonpan <jonpan at onlinehome.de> wrote: Try running

c:\chkdsk /p /r  or d:\chkdsk /p /r  depending on the partition, from the 
Recovery Console.
If you don't have the R C on your HDD, you'll need the orig. XP CD.

/p means check even if the disk is not flagged 'dirty'
/r means locate bad sectors and recover readable info (implies /p)

In my experience, this carries out a much deeper and more reliable check.

John
Od/G


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray" 
To: "TSGL" 

Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 9:42 PM
Subject: TSGL: Question about Windows "CheckDisk"


You're presented with two options:

* Automatically fix file system errors
    OR
*Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors

Either option requires that all files must be closed in order for it to run.

If you choose the "bad sector" scan then, supposedly, you don't need to 
select the first option --- sounds like it does both.  But here's the 
thing.....if I check the first option, it always has to run after a restart.

The second option runs right away and doesn't require a reboot.  This makes 
no sense to me, if in fact either process needs to have all files closed. 
The bad sector scan appears to go through its paces and completes just fine.

But I'm wondering if it's really doing anything at all, including fixing any

files errors.

Any ideas on this?  It's just something I've always been curious about.


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