[pchelpers] SpinRite or Scandisk

That some interesting info at that site about Scandisk. I have XP and I 
have it do a check on my computer by Opening Windows explorer and R 
Click on the C drive, choose properties and then tools and the Check Now 
(not the defrag one), I then check both boxes and then ok. It then tells 
me it can't do it till I reboot, I click ok and reboot and it does it's 
thing, takes a little while. I've always assumed that this is XP's kinda 
equivalent to the old Scandisk. It also give me no choices as to 
whatever it finds or doesn't find.

At the Scandisk info site you gave me, he said he only runs it every 2-6 
weeks, I've always run it more often. Am i doing something that is 
unnecessary?

John Durham wrote:

>There is no doubt that Spinrite has a good reputation for doing a 
>thorough job. That's fine if you can leave it to work on the drive for 
>24 hours (perhaps more). Scandisk is already there, and the thorough 
>scan is quicker. As for deleting files it can't read, I have heard of 
>this in connection with crosslinked files, but that's all (probably not 
>scandisk). As to whether scandisk does this without telling you, there 
>may be more on this here:
>http://www.qualitypc.net/Scandisk.htm
>
>DonBieber@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  
>
>>     I've read pros and cons about using Scandisk and how much better
>>SpinRite is ($89.00) Thoughts?
>>     When I set up Scandisk in Win98 setups, I always check the box to fix
>>errors automatically. I always check the box to delete the strings
>>(Whatever they're called) instead of saving them as a file in the root
>>directory. After a while you have a ton of those files in the root
>>directory. You can't open them to read them, or at least I have not been
>>able to do so.
>>     Why would I not want to setup Scandisk this way? I have read, by the
>>maker of SpinRite, that ScanDisk deletes anything that it cannot read.
>>Is that true? and is it bad?
>>CU,
>>Don Bieber
>>    
>>


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