where's scandisk in xp?

ed_fubes · Post by **ed_fubes** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 2:31 am

Umm... can't seem to find scandisk in xp, does it even have it? I tried using diskdoctor from norton, but it won't allow, sayin that window session has priority over the task or sth like that... I keep noticing disk errors lately, i just wanna clear it up..that's all..

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 2:34 am

It's called 'chkdsk' in XP.

Type that in the 'run' line

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 2:42 am

An even better idea...

Open a Command window and type chkdsk /? and hit [enter]

That will give you all the command line switches, and proper sysntax for chkdsk.exe

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 10:14 am

Double-click My Computer. Right-click drive letter. Select Properties. Click tools. Now you can do a check disk, defrag or a backup.

richardc · Post by **richardc** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 9:47 am

Just in case anyone is interested in whether chkdsk is necessary or to query a volume's current state, type :

fsutil dirty query <volume>:
*example*--fsutil dirty query c:

at the command prompt. The result will be either

Volume - <volume>: is Dirty
Volume - <volume>: is NOT Dirty

To set the status of a volume's dirty flag, type

fsutil dirty set <volume>:
at the command prompt. Use this command with care: XP won't ask you to confirm this action, and you can't use this command to set the dirty flag's status to clean. It will perform a CHKDSK at next boot for the drive

chkntfs/t:n where t= time and n= the seconds delay
will run checkdisk on bootup. works for fat32