RE: MAINTENANCE for computer not jaws.
- From: "Bruce Toews" <Bruce@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:18:22 -0500
If you have stopped doing so at least from time to time, you have been
remiss. Later versions of Windows have to this day never eliminated the
need to do such maintenance.
Bruce
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:12:05 -0700, "Gene" <gwilson@xxxxxxxx> said:
> Everett,
>
> Thanks for the tips. It has been a long while since I used any type of
> scandisk or checkdisk. In the days of DOS, Windows3.11 and Windows95, it
> was a regular practice.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of E.J. Zufelt
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:21 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: MAINTENANCE for computer not jaws.
>
> Gene,
>
> On XP, and probably Vista:
>
> 1. Open My Computer
> 2. Right Click on the Drive and select Properties.
> 3. Select the Tools tab
>
> There should be an option there to Scan / Check the drive.
>
> HTH,
> Everett
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene" <gwilson@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:07 PM
> Subject: RE: MAINTENANCE for computer not jaws.
>
>
> > Dave,
> >
> > Excellent advice! Previous editions of Windows provided a "checkdisk"
> > tool.
> > I don't believe XP and beyond does. It may be because hard drives have
> > gotten to be huge.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of dave-d0619
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:09 AM
> > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: MAINTENANCE for computer not jaws.
> >
> > No criticism, but you should run a disk checking program on any drive or
> > disk before using a program to defragment any drive or disk that you want
> > defragmented.
> >
> > Very often, defragmenting programs cannot or, will not, complete their
> > task
> > if the programs encounter incorrectly assigned track, sector and data
> > errors
> > on a hard drive or disk. That is why running a disk checking program
> > first
> > is so important.
> >
> > Sincerely:
> >
> > Dave Durber
> >
> >
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