Scandisk in Win2K Pro

[LilHen]

1. Any way to get Win2K to display the summary/results of a disk scan like in Win9X? I'm mainly interested in the summary/results for removable media. I know that if you have Win2K do a scan of HD's at startup, it will record the results in the Event Log. Right now, if you let it scan in Windows, it runs and that's it. It would fix any errors, but you have no idea if there were any bad sectors.

2. Any FREE disk scanning utitlities out there that can report the results that I'm after?

THANKS for your help!

 

[NogginBoink]

C:\>chkdsk c:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

8875880 KB total disk space.
6610476 KB in 79306 files.
31876 KB in 4461 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
141056 KB in use by the system.
46432 KB occupied by the log file.
2092472 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
2218970 total allocation units on disk.
523118 allocation units available on disk.

 

[LilHen]

Thanks NogginBoink. Forgot all about DOS. But no free programs to do that in Windows itself?

 

[bozo1]

That is not DOS. It's a W2K command prompt.

 

[Nothinman]

Thanks NogginBoink. Forgot all about DOS. But no free programs to do that in Windows itself?

There is no DOS in NT, just because it's a CLI tool doesn't mean it's DOS. And the GUI chkdsk just runs the CLI chkdsk behind your back, run it from the CLI to get the output above.

 

[LilHen]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Thanks NogginBoink. Forgot all about DOS. But no free programs to do that in Windows itself?

There is no DOS in NT, just because it's a CLI tool doesn't mean it's DOS. And the GUI chkdsk just runs the CLI chkdsk behind your back, run it from the CLI to get the output above.

Alright, now you've lost me. What's CLI? Do I just type C:\>chkdsk c: at the Run command? Or type chkdsk a: at the command prompt (after typing "command" in the run dialog)?

 

[MetroRider]

Originally posted by: LilHen

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Thanks NogginBoink. Forgot all about DOS. But no free programs to do that in Windows itself?

There is no DOS in NT, just because it's a CLI tool doesn't mean it's DOS. And the GUI chkdsk just runs the CLI chkdsk behind your back, run it from the CLI to get the output above.

Alright, now you've lost me. What's CLI? Do I just type C:\>chkdsk c: at the Run command? Or type chkdsk a: at the command prompt (after typing "command" in the run dialog)?

type in "chkdsk c:" once you are already in the command prompt. also, for better performance, do not use the 'command' tool when going to Start... Run.

instead, use the cmd command instead, as it faster and has a couple of features extra over the command command.

good luck!

 

[bozo1]

command runs a pseudo DOS shell that has more DOS compatibility than CMD but there are many commands you can't run from there. (You can run a CHKDSK, however.) CMD is NT/W2K/XP's command line interface and is what you should use.

 

[Nothinman]

command is the real 16-bit DOS command.com being run through NTVDM, that's why it's so slow. CMD is the 32-bit native shell so it's a lot faster and more capable than command, but it's still lacking compared to things like bash.