Growing up on Macintosh Computers (1988 was my first computer – a Macintosh SE with a whopping 8MHz, 9″ B&W screen, 20MB HD, and 1MB RAM), my knowledge of some very basic Windows operations is sometimes lacking. Moving from the Mac to a linux world probably didn’t help much either. Hey, at least I started to learn what IRQ’s were.<\/p>\n
I had no idea how to use the DOS command prompts to do what I wanted. I was used to the linux style commands (who knew that dir was the same as ls?). I was also used to the fact that the Mac had no utilities to defrag, clean up, or otherwise alter data. The Mac just worked.<\/p>\n
Windows, however, sometimes needs a gentle (read “harsh”) push to do what I want it to do. This is where my love of the command line and my necessity to Windows comes into play.<\/p>\n
We all know that Windows 98 and ME forced you to run the Check Disk utility on startup if you shutdown the computer improperly. Probably a good 99% of the time I would bypass this check as I already knew the issue. That and I’m impatient.<\/p>\n
So without further ado, here’s the command to run check disk: With all that out of the way – I’m thinking about moving this site to a new one. The only problem with that is the fact that google has this site already cached for searching. We’ll think about it.<\/p>\n ***EDIT*** Growing up on Macintosh Computers (1988 was my first computer – a Macintosh SE with a whopping 8MHz, 9″ B&W screen, 20MB HD, and 1MB RAM), my knowledge of some very basic Windows operations is sometimes lacking. Moving from the Mac to a linux world probably didn’t help much either. Hey, at least I started … Continue reading Windows Check Disk<\/span>
\nStart >> Run >> CMD
\nchkdsk<\/code> This will run Check Disk in read-only mode and will not repair any issues it finds
\nchkdsk C:\/f<\/code> This will run Check Disk in forced repair mode, but it will not check for bad sectors on the HD
\nchkdsk C:\/r<\/code> This will run Check Disk in repair mode, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information<\/p>\n
\nchkdsk c: \/f \/r will do the same as both of the commands. This will scandisk your entire system – ie it’ll scan for bad sectors etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"