What Happened To ScanDisk



After installing XP, Win9x/ME users have been asking what happened to the Scandisk program. The answer is that Scandisk is gone! Scandisk has been replaced by the more powerful disk-checking tool: chkdsk. You can run chkdsk from the command prompt or from Windows. To run it from Windows:
     1. Open My Computer.
     2. Right mouse click on the drive you want to check and click Properties.
     3. Choose the Tools tab. On the Tools tab, choose the Check Now button.


























     4. Select both the Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad
          sectors option.
      5. Choose Start.


























     6. You may see a dialog box that tells you that chkdsk needs exclusive access to the disk and can
         check the disk after a restart.
     7. Choose Yes to check the disk the next time you start the computer. If you select this option, make
         sure you restart the computer as soon as possible. 
     8. If you don't get the dialog box, chkdsk will go through a 5 phase process to clean up your disk.
         When the disk check is done, it will tell you the process is complete.

Note: If your computer shuts down improperly, chkdsk will run automatically at restart.
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