Re: chkdsk
- From: "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:25:55 -0700
Understanding what CHKDSK does
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314835/en-us#XSLTH3154121123120121120120
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An explanation of the new /C and /I Switches that are available to use with
Chkdsk.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314835
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:x7OMf.434$Bj7.162@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Steve N. <me@xxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Rock wrote:
Ulysses31 wrote:
Well I had a problem with a drive after a crash and ran chkdsk/f as
was requested, it found a lot of problems which it corrected, and
manged to delete about 15 gig of files (it seemed to zero size some
large files that I had, i.e they changed for 1.5 gig to 0k ect) It
only produced 3 files in its found dir which were also 0k so i deleted
them. The files that it reduced to 0k were in a few directories and I
certainly don't think I had all the files open at the time. I simply
deleted the 0k versions of the files and replaced them. I then used
chkdsk/f to check all the other partitions on my computer (i have 4).
I have no list of files that it changed, I only recognised 3 when
watching the screen. I checked for a log but I could only find one
for the last time it was run which was on one of the other partitions.
My question is does this mean that chkdsk only altered those files
that became 0k, I dont really mind about that, just so long as I know
what those files were, the problem is if it altered lots of files that
I dont know of so dont know I need to replace (that hard drive is
quite large).
Thanks for any help
Unfortunately chkdsk doesn't give much information on what it did. I
doubt that anyone can tell you what happened when chkdsk did it's thing.
This is about as close as I've been able to find explaing the things
chkdsk does, but alothough very good info it admittedly leaves out some
details:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=187941&sd=RMVP
The best way around this in the future is always have a full and
complete backup. Consider using a drive imaging program. This makes an
exact image of the partition which can be saved on CD/DVD or to another
drive - internal or external. Imaging to an external USB 2.0 / Firewire
drive works well. Then occasionally burning an image to DVD gives you
redundancy. Restores can be done of the entire partition or individual
files / folders. These work well and make it easy to recover from a
drive crash. Examples of this are:
Norton Ghost 10
Acronis True Image
Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows
CasperXP
Backup, backup, backup. Always the best advice. :) There's no such thing
as too many backups.
Steve N.
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