Re: Where does chkdsk put its report/log file?

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From: J Krugman (jkrugman345_at_yahbitoo.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:31:34 +0000 (UTC)

In <ecq3ccZ0EHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl> "Dave Patrick" <mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> writes:

>When Autochk runs against a volume at boot time it records its output to a
>file called Bootex.log in the root of the volume being checked. The Winlogon
>service then moves the contents of each Bootex.log file to the Application
>Event log. One event log message for each volume checked is recorded. So
>check the application event log.

As I wrote in my original message, this is all greek to me. How
do I "check the application event log"? I don't know what an
"application event log" is. Is it a file? If so, where is it, or
how can I locate it? Do I need to run a particular application to
inspect the "application event log" whatever that is?

jill

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>Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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>"J Krugman" wrote:
>|
>|
>| Where does chkdsk put its report or log file? I've come across
>| cryptic replies to this question, along the lines of
>|
>| MMC Console / Applications / Events
>|
>| but this is all greek to me. chkdsk /? is no help and my only
>| manual ("Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual") says nothing of
>| this. Can someone please give me more explicit instructions for
>| how to find chkdsk's log file?
>|
>| (BTW, I did try running mmc, but the console that came up, which
>| I thought would be the "MMC Console" mentioned above, had nothing
>| like Applications->Events as an option.)
>|
>| TIA!
>|
>| jill
>|
>| P.S. What are better reference books for questions like this than
>| the book cited above?
>| --
>| To s&e^n]d me m~a}i]l r%e*m?o\v[e bit from my a|d)d:r{e:s]s.
>| 

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