Re: Can't seem to Scan my Hard Drive have no access to Scan Disk

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 11/22/04


Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:10:35 -0500

You upgraded a previous version of windows.

There is NO scandisk in Win2K !

It may be in the menu, but does it work ? Maybe if you have a low capacity FAT32 partition
(assuming the executable was not deleted in the upgrade process) but it won't work on NTFS
which it is NOT designed for.

Dave

"Mad Dog Mike @ 56Kers . com" <cadmaningp@NSmailcity.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95A8AD59810B7cadmaningpNSmailcity@216.168.3.44...
| If so, then what am I seeing when I go My Computer > right click a drive
| and select properties > select the tools tab, and the first item (
| although it does not say ) is scandisk?
|
| "Dave Patrick" <mail@NoSpam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in news:eutjFmueEHA.2532
| @TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:
|
| > There is no scandisk in Windows 2000. From a command prompt
| > chkdsk /f



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