Re: bad blocks

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 10/16/04


Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:14:12 -0400

SlowJet wrote:
> Come again, 9x girl?

No, silly, that would be scandisk. :-)
>
> SJ
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in
> message news:uI9VwsxsEHA.316@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Roland wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> The Event Viewer shows some disk errors.
>>> How can I locate the bad blocks and tell Windows XP not to use them?
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Do a backup of your data just in case, then run chkdsk /f in a
>> command prompt. If that solves the problem, great - if not, try
>> chkdsk /r