- Surface scan
- Posted by bunky on December 17th, 2005
How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?
- Posted by Dixonian69 on December 17th, 2005
check out/use Windows "help and support"!!
"bunky" wrote:
> How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?
- Posted by M and D on December 17th, 2005
Right-click on drive - Properties - Tools - Error Checking - Check Now - Scan for and attempy recovery of bad sectors.
Steven
"bunky" <bunky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8EA11E08-1BE2-42D3-9772-43F82D85071B@microsoft.com...
> How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?
- Posted by bunky on December 18th, 2005
Maybe I should make myself clear. I know how to run scandisk, I even know how
to run chkdsk in DOS mode on XP and have it fix errors. What I DON'T know is
that either of those options actually scans the physical drive for bad
sectors. With 98 it would take a long time to scan the surface, under XP it
doesn't take nearly as long and I have a larger hard drive, so how do I get
XP to scan the physical surface of my drives or does it do it automatically?
"bunky" wrote:
> How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?
- Posted by yogi on December 18th, 2005
use chkdsk /f at the command prompt. for hard disks though you may have to go
into the recovery console to do so.
"bunky" wrote:
> Maybe I should make myself clear. I know how to run scandisk, I even know how
> to run chkdsk in DOS mode on XP and have it fix errors. What I DON'T know is
> that either of those options actually scans the physical drive for bad
> sectors. With 98 it would take a long time to scan the surface, under XP it
> doesn't take nearly as long and I have a larger hard drive, so how do I get
> XP to scan the physical surface of my drives or does it do it automatically?
>
> "bunky" wrote:
>
> > How do I do a surface scan of floppy and hard disks?
