Anything better then Norton disk doctor?

[Gannon]

I've been using norton for a long time but I've noticed ever since the advent of windows XP that norton disk doctor has been neutered, it cannot be run in dos or from the command line, and the "disk checks" comprise of windows restarting and running chkdsk.

Am I missing something here? Or are there better tools? I'm almost inclined to write norton and ask "wtf happened?!?"

It seems weird not being able to see the blocks as it scans, etc. I know hard disks have changed and bad sectors and whatnot are probably handled more automatically and pre-emptively by the drive itself... but why is it that Norton now has to go through chkdsk?

 

[Nothinman]

Just use chkdsk.

 

[corkyg]

Norton stopped development of Disk Doctor when XP came out - it doesn't play well with NTFS. So, it uses CHKDSK. So, as Nothinman suggests, just go there directly and eliminate the middleman.

For a more powerful scanner with non-destructive low level capability, look at Gibson SpinRite.

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