- chkdsk- useless-scandisk found errors-chkdsk did not
- Posted by Rick H on October 19th, 2005
Hi, I had a couple of files to transfer from a 3.5 floppy. As happens once in
a while it couldn't read that portion of the disk. So on my win xp pro
machine I ran CHKDSK since SCANDISK no longer exists. (BAD MOVE MS) It found
no problems. So I put the disk in old reliable, a win 98se machine ran a full
SCANDISK, it found and corrected errors. File retreived.
Am I missing something with CHKDSK? Does CHKDSK even do a surface check.
Any enlightenment would be great.
Thanks,
Rick
rhots995@netzero.com
- Posted by Ted Zieglar on October 19th, 2005
"Does CHKDSK even do a surface check."
If you ask for one: My Computer > right-click on the drive in question >
select Properties > select the Tools tab > Error-checking - Check Now button
> checkmark in 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors'.
--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."
"Rick H" <RickH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAB074D9-15BB-4A98-9174-1511BFCDAB31@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I had a couple of files to transfer from a 3.5 floppy. As happens once
in
> a while it couldn't read that portion of the disk. So on my win xp pro
> machine I ran CHKDSK since SCANDISK no longer exists. (BAD MOVE MS) It
found
> no problems. So I put the disk in old reliable, a win 98se machine ran a
full
> SCANDISK, it found and corrected errors. File retreived.
> Am I missing something with CHKDSK? Does CHKDSK even do a surface check.
> Any enlightenment would be great.
> Thanks,
> Rick
> rhots995@netzero.com
- Posted by Rick H on October 19th, 2005
Thanks Ted, that was just what I was looking for.
Rick
"Ted Zieglar" wrote:
> "Does CHKDSK even do a surface check."
>
> If you ask for one: My Computer > right-click on the drive in question >
> select Properties > select the Tools tab > Error-checking - Check Now button
> > checkmark in 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors'.
>
> --
> Ted Zieglar
> "You can do it if you try."
>
> "Rick H" <RickH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AAB074D9-15BB-4A98-9174-1511BFCDAB31@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I had a couple of files to transfer from a 3.5 floppy. As happens once
> in
> > a while it couldn't read that portion of the disk. So on my win xp pro
> > machine I ran CHKDSK since SCANDISK no longer exists. (BAD MOVE MS) It
> found
> > no problems. So I put the disk in old reliable, a win 98se machine ran a
> full
> > SCANDISK, it found and corrected errors. File retreived.
> > Am I missing something with CHKDSK? Does CHKDSK even do a surface check.
> > Any enlightenment would be great.
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
> > rhots995@netzero.com
>
>
- Posted by Ted Zieglar on October 19th, 2005
Think how much simpler it would be if, instead of "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors", the caption said something like "Check the surface
of the drive". <g>
--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."
"Rick H" <RickH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90CB8B80-C0A8-4386-AAE3-405C62FA8263@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Ted, that was just what I was looking for.
> Rick
>
> "Ted Zieglar" wrote:
>
> > "Does CHKDSK even do a surface check."
> >
> > If you ask for one: My Computer > right-click on the drive in question >
> > select Properties > select the Tools tab > Error-checking - Check Now
button
> > > checkmark in 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors'.
> >
> > --
> > Ted Zieglar
> > "You can do it if you try."
> >
> > "Rick H" <RickH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:AAB074D9-15BB-4A98-9174-1511BFCDAB31@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi, I had a couple of files to transfer from a 3.5 floppy. As happens
once
> > in
> > > a while it couldn't read that portion of the disk. So on my win xp pro
> > > machine I ran CHKDSK since SCANDISK no longer exists. (BAD MOVE MS) It
> > found
> > > no problems. So I put the disk in old reliable, a win 98se machine ran
a
> > full
> > > SCANDISK, it found and corrected errors. File retreived.
> > > Am I missing something with CHKDSK? Does CHKDSK even do a surface
check.
> > > Any enlightenment would be great.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rick
> > > rhots995@netzero.com
> >
> >
- Posted by Enkidu on October 19th, 2005
Ted Zieglar wrote:
>
> Think how much simpler it would be if, instead of "Scan
> for and attempt recovery of bad sectors", the caption
> said something like "Check the surface of the drive". <g>
>
>
Then you would get people posting here wanting to know what
"Check the surface of the drive" means. <grin>
Cheers,
Cliff
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