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440295 2006-03-24 03:17:00 When rebooting XP Home, chkdsk kicks in automatically and scans my drives, correcting stuff as it goes.

Does running cmd: chkdsk /f do anything different?

Thanks.
braindead (1685)
440296 2006-03-24 04:30:00 /F Automatically Fix file system errors on the disk.

/X Fix file system errors on the disk, (Win2003 and above)
dismounts the volume first, closing all open file handles.

/R Scan for and attempt Recovery of bad sectors.

/V Display the full path and name of every file on the disk.

/L:size NTFS only: change the log file size to the specified number of kilobytes. If size is not specified, displays the current log size and the drive type (FAT or NTFS).

/C Skip directory corruption checks.

/I Skip corruption checks that compare directory entries to the
file record segment (FRS) in the volume's master file table (MFT)
pctek (84)
440297 2006-03-24 05:04:00 Thanks for the list PCTek. However I'm not sure if that's anwered my question. When chkdsk runs after a reboot, does it apply any of items on your list by default? IOW, if not, then how does chkdsk fix things? braindead (1685)
440298 2006-03-24 05:27:00 when chkdsk runs on startup, it runs as if you used the /f argument. If you run chkdsk manually, you have to specify the /f argument or it will run in read only mode Greven (91)
440299 2006-03-24 05:28:00 Aha! Thank you Greven! braindead (1685)
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