[pchelpers] Re: SpinRite or Scandisk

Hi Scott

>>>What is happening which makes it necessary at all? You should NOT be
>>>regularly getting bad spots, lost clusters, cross-linked files, etc.,
>>>unless you play soccer with your computer or lose power frequently.
> 
> EGlnl> Since you are surely not saying what this sounds like - no need
> EGlnl> to ever run it - what *are* you trying to say? How often would
> EGlnl> you recommend running ScanDisk/CheckDisk?
> 
> You should not NEED to, unless the system crashes or the power goes
> out (or flickers or browns) or the system gets sluggish out of the
> blue (due to a bad spot) or some such thing... but for the sake of
> paranoia, you probably should run every 2-3 months at most, with the
> exact timing depending upon how often problems are found when you do
> manual scan; you'd want to do it more often if you're experienced at
> crashing your system.  :)
> 
> Windows XP seems to be relatively good about forcing a scan when it
> thinks the drive might be corrupted or when it has trouble reading a
> sector.
> 
> The 9x versions of Windows are another matter entirely; I'd suggest
> scanning those no LESS often than about once a month.

Great to know, thanks! Now i can cross one thing off my list of things 
to have a bad conscience about.

Amazing that this was never brought up here before. No surprise that MS 
and computer stores don't bother to mention such a major change. I mean, 
they never bothered to tell people about the need to run Scandisk 
regularly in Windows 9x, so why would they bother to tell that this need 
has all but disappeared...

Actually, what with falling prices and cutthroat competition, i'm amazed 
that no computer manufacturers and very few (only small) stores have 
realised that the way to beat the competition is to tell your customers 
important things, and before things go wrong, and in normal, good English.

Ek


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