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77109 2002-09-06 17:07:00 Hi,

I've got my 40gb hard drive into 11 partitions.

What I want to know is what command can I use to allow me to check the volume for errors on all my partitions at once?

Without the need to go to My Computer-Tools-Check Now->"Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" for each hard drive?

Some of my partitions are using the FAT32 system. Entirely, most use NTFS.

Is there a command that anyone knows of an can give me an example?
Most appreciated if you have any ideas

Sandy Beach
sandy beach (1540)
77110 2002-09-06 22:54:00 Just out of curiousity, why so many partitions? helvista (1745)
77111 2002-09-07 02:11:00 Hi,

Well out of curiosity;

[4OG HDD]
The Partition consists of:
* WindowsXP Professional
* Windows 2000
* Office- Where all the setup files are copied from CD + Other MS Programs:Greetings, works etc . .
* Applications- Adobe Paintshop and some important programs
* MP3
* Email- created so that other users from other accounts can send any email to another

[2nd HDD]
* Backup
* Pagefile -for xp and 2000
* Setup

Reason: Like it like this and I don't always want to defrag or scan disk a 40Gb HDD spending hours waiting for it to finish
sandy beach (1540)
77112 2002-09-07 02:26:00 Not aware of any method.


As an option, use Task Scheduler since drive maintainance should be on a regular basis.


btw - don't confuse 2000 with XP
Merlin (503)
77113 2002-09-07 23:00:00 Curiosity satisfied, ty. helvista (1745)
77114 2002-09-07 23:30:00 You could write a quick batch file that runs chkdsk on all the drives and pipes the output to a text file for you to examine later.
eg

echo Checking Partition C: >C:\chkdsklog.txt
chkdsk c: >>chkdsklog.txt
echo Checking Partition D: >>C:\chkdsklog.txt
chkdsk d: >>chkdsklog.txt

you can also specify /R for surface scan and /F to fix errors, however you can't do this on a drive containing the OS that is running at the time, or one containing a pagefile that is in use at the time.
note: use > to pipe output to a new fie, >> to append onto the end.
Once you have your batch file you can then schedule it to run automatically with the task scheduler.
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