On 1/27/2014 11:33 AM, Boating All Out wrote:
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On 1/27/2014 10:03 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/27/14, 9:20 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:08:52 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 1/26/14, 8:54 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On 26 Jan 2014 21:56:01 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:
Forgotten the joys of chkdsk on windoze... Yawn.
What the hell are you doing with chkdsk? Windows for Workgroups?
That's an old one, for sure.
Chkdsk is one of the tools that is easily available on Windoze 7. It's
still useful, if maddeningly slow. It can find and repair simple
problems that might come up on hard drives running Windoze.
The 'chkdsk' tool has been around for a long time. Glad you found it
and hope it helps.
I'm surprised so many of you windoze acolytes don't run it at least once
a month in order to seek out and repair those bad clusters the OS creates.
I don't know Harry. For kicks I just ran chkdsk on this five year old
Vista laptop for the first time since I bought it. Took about 20-25
minutes and reported zero bad files or clusters. I've used this
computer a lot.
I did on a heavily used 500gb drive on my Win7 system. 4 years old.
Took about 30 seconds. Zero bad files or clusters.
Harry's living in the past.
30 seconds to run a check on a 500Gb drive? That's too fast to be
believable.
My Vista laptop only has a 285Gb drive and it took almost 25 minutes.
When chkdsk first started, it just sat there for a while doing nothing.
I was about to close it thinking it wasn't doing anything when it
suddenly started reporting "stage 1 of 3" activities, then "stage 2 of
3", etc. It displayed percentage of completion of the disk scan as it
worked.
Are you sure you didn't shut it down before it even started?