[pchelpers] Re: no scan disk in win xp

It won't.  But who said there is no scan disk in XP?  I run it all the time.
It is called error checking now.  Right click on C-drive; properties; tools;
error checking.  It even makes .chk files like the old check disk did.

Bob McLellan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Durham" <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>


> It's unlikely to work if the partition is NTFS. It may not run on XP
> either- I'd like to hear from someone who has tried that.
>
> G. Cox wrote:
>
> >What about lost file clusters or data that is just taking up space? Does
> >this Error-Checking tool do all that scandisk used to do? Would it work
to
> >copy scandisk to an XP harddrive and run it?
> >
>


Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig>
Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers
PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig
Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.

Other related posts: