Chkdsk question

[thingy]

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1) - when Running Chkdsk from the C Drive Properties, if the ' Automatically fix Errors' is left unchecked, what happens if an Error is detected ?

2) - is there any Chkdsk log file anywhere - like we had Scandisk.log on 98\ME - I know there's a
Summary in the Event Viewer but that only repeats what's on the Blue Screen during the proxcess

Thanks

 

[bsobel]

1) - when Running Chkdsk from the C Drive Properties, if the ' Automatically fix Errors' is left unchecked, what happens if an Error is detected ?

The error is reported/logged but not repaired.

2) - is there any Chkdsk log file anywhere - like we had Scandisk.log on 98\ME - I know there's a
Summary in the Event Viewer but that only repeats what's on the Blue Screen during the proxcess

Nope, just the event viewer.

Bill

 

[thingy]

Thanks Bill

So, if 'Automatically fix...' is checked and an Error is found and fixed then that fact would be recorded in the Event Viewer Summary ?

I know we can use the Command Prompt with Switches - I was just curious about the above as that's the way I usually do it and Event Viewer has never reported any errors found

 

[bsobel]

So, if 'Automatically fix...' is checked and an Error is found and fixed then that fact would be recorded in the Event Viewer Summary ?

Yes, the GUI is just a graphical front end for the same tool the command line tool uses.

I know we can use the Command Prompt with Switches - I was just curious about the above as that's the way I usually do it and Event Viewer has never reported any errors found

Thats good

Bill