-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Are checkdisk and scandisk the same?

Hi Wendy,
    Your subject line says it all.  Under WinNT & Win2000 (and perhaps
WinXP), Scandisk isn't present.  Instead, the system uses CHKDSK.EXE for its
error checking needs.

    The easiest way to use it is to open up My Computer, right click on the
hard drive and select Properties from the context menu that opens up.  Next,
click on the Tools tab and finally on the Check Now button inside the Error
Checking section.  The utility will either start right away or tell you that
the drive is currently in use and suggest scheduling a check to be performed
during the next reboot.  If you only have one hard drive and it's not
partitioned, expect it to request that schedule.

Peace,
G Man

PCTechTalk Owner

----- Original Message -----
From: "wendy simmons" <wsmailer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <PCTechTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 8:19 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Are checkdisk and scandisk the same?


Hi,
I'm running Windows NT and trying to do a scan disk. I can't find where to
tell it to run one. On Symantec's website in an article about
troubleshooting when you think the virus scan is not running to completion,
one of the things it suggests is to run a scan disk. It says to go to Start,
Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Scan Disk. There is no system tools
option in accessories on my computer. There is a Administrative Tools
(Common) option which contains Disk Administrator and also Windows NT
Diagnostics but neither of these are what I want. I shut the computer off
without using the Start menu to try to force it to do a scan disk but it
just did a check disk. This didn't take long to run and was different than
the scan disk I am used to on my computer with Windows 95. Are check disk
and scan disk basically the same? Should I go into MS DOS prompt and tell it
to do a scan disk there for each drive?

Thank you,
Wendy

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