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| Thread ID: 46184 | 2004-06-16 01:35:00 | Where is chkdsk report for XP? | LynH (669) | Press F1 |
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| 244975 | 2004-06-16 01:35:00 | Someone pushed the "Off" button on my XP computer and it ran ScanDisk on starting up again. Scandisk reported bad sectors on my hard drive, but I have been unable to reproduce the report to find out whether the hard drive on my 2 1/2 year old PC is failing. I have tried Start | Run | chkdsk c: but text flashes past and the window closes before I can read the results of the scan. Is it possible to view a log file or disk properties so I can track whether the bad sectors are increasing? In Win95 (I think) you could display properties for a hard drive which showed good/bad sectors. How do I do this in XP? |
LynH (669) | ||
| 244976 | 2004-06-16 01:53:00 | Easiest answer would be not to run chkdsk from the "Run" window. From the Run window, type "command" That will give you a command window, where you can type chkdsk c: from, and that window will persist on the completion of chkdsk until you close it. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 244977 | 2004-06-16 02:04:00 | Go to; Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer and click on the Application Log. Scroll down to the time of the disc scan and look for an entry similar to: Information xxTime xxDate Winlogon xxx xxx N/A. Double click on it and scroll in the report. Or you could do for a search for *.log Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 244978 | 2004-06-30 08:48:00 | Thanks, Murray. There were too many *.log files, but I found the correct report in the Event Viewer | Application Log. Exactly what I was looking for. | LynH (669) | ||
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