Re: Writing Script for ScanDisk and Defrag

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Put these lines into c:\Windows\MyDefrag.bat:
@echo off
chkdsk.exe /.. /.. /..
defrag.exe /.. /.. /..

Add your own switches as required. As Jeffery recommended, type
defrag /? and
chkdsk /?
at the Command Prompt to see what the switches mean.

Running these commands frequently may give you a warm feeling
inside but is neither necessary nor recommended. Chkdsk.exe does
not need to be run all the time in a healthy system and defragging
your partition frequently makes no difference to the speed but could
corrupt the file system if the system gets rebooted in the middle, e.g.
because of a power failure.


"JayBee" <JayBee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can you give me an example of a basic script for them? I am not real sure
how
I would write it to get it to work. Thanks in advance.

"Jeffery Hicks [MVP]" wrote:

open a command prompt and run defrag /? and chkdsk /? to see the syntax
for
each command.

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"JayBee" <JayBee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Do you know of just a basic script I can write in Notepad to run defrag
and
scandisk?

"Jeffery Hicks [MVP]" wrote:

You could make it part of a user's logon script, assuming their
account
has
rights to run defrag. Another option would be to make it part of a
computer
startup-script. Or as a variation, use a computer startup script to
set
the
scheduled task to run one time only. You could then use a computer
shutdown
task to delete the job if you wanted.

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"JayBee" <JayBee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the info, but I need a script I can run once and it push
to
all
the computers on our network. We don't want to have to go to every
pc
and
set
up a scheduled task. Any ideas?

"Al Dunbar" wrote:

Running defrag as a scheduled task makes sense; fragementation
occurs
naturally on a healthy volume, so there is really no need to know
what
is
going on with defrag unless it reports a serious disk error. But,
as
far
as
I know, any conditions that CHKDSK might resolve would be better
known
about
than simply "fixed".


/Al

"Jeffery Hicks [MVP]" <jhicks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you have XP and later clients you can use DEFRAG.EXE from the
command
line. You can't run it remotely. You might try setting up a
scheduled
task to do it. You can do that remotely using SCHTASKS.EXE. You
could
do
the same thing with CHKDSK.EXE.

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Microsoft PowerShell MVP
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"JayBee" <JayBee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need help figuring out a good script to write for running
ScanDisk
and
Defrag on our network. It would need to be able to run on all
the
pc's.
Can
I use it in Group Policy? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.






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