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December 26th 03, 08:44 AM
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Any use for "chkdsk /R" ?
Microsoft Windows 2000 has a utility "chksdk" for repairing disk
problems. It has an option "/R" that locates bad sectors and recovers information. My disk drives are newish ATA 100 units from Maxtor and Western Digital. For such recent technology, does the "/R" option have any use? Or does the disk drive take care of bad sectors all by itself? -- David Arnstein Please do not look at laser with remaining eye 
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December 26th 03, 06:18 PM
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David Arnstein wrote in message ... Microsoft Windows 2000 has a utility "chksdk" for repairing disk problems. It has an option "/R" that locates bad sectors and recovers information. My disk drives are newish ATA 100 units from Maxtor and Western Digital. For such recent technology, does the "/R" option have any use? Or does the disk drive take care of bad sectors all by itself? chkdsk operates at the file structures level. The drive bad sector management operates at the sector level, below the file structures level. And not all bads seen by the drive are automatically transparently managed.
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January 3rd 04, 10:20 PM
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"Andrew Rossmann" wrote in message ews.com... [This followup was posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In article , says... Microsoft Windows 2000 has a utility "chksdk" for repairing disk problems. It has an option "/R" that locates bad sectors and recovers information. My disk drives are newish ATA 100 units from Maxtor and Western Digital. For such recent technology, does the "/R" option have any use? Or does the disk drive take care of bad sectors all by itself? For the most part, a modern drive has spare sectors it uses in place of known bad ones. /R isn't too useful today, although it could be useful on a floppy. It might also work on a hard drive where some other sort of glitch (bad cable, controller, power glitch) caused bad sectors Windows to mark sectors as bad. And caused Windows to mark those sectors as bad. -- If there is a no_junk in my address, please REMOVE it before replying! All junk mail senders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!! http://home.att.net/~andyross
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January 9th 04, 08:45 PM
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"Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message news: "Andrew Rossmann" wrote in message ews.com... [This followup was posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In article , says... Microsoft Windows 2000 has a utility "chksdk" for repairing disk problems. It has an option "/R" that locates bad sectors and recovers information. My disk drives are newish ATA 100 units from Maxtor and Western Digital. For such recent technology, does the "/R" option have any use? Or does the disk drive take care of bad sectors all by itself? For the most part, a modern drive has spare sectors it uses in place of known bad ones. /R isn't too useful today, although it could be useful on a floppy. It might also work on a hard drive where some other sort of glitch (bad cable, controller, power glitch) caused bad sectors Windows to mark sectors as bad. And caused Windows to mark those sectors as bad. Oops, should read: .... to mark those sectors as bad clusters. -- If there is a no_junk in my address, please REMOVE it before replying! All junk mail senders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!! http://home.att.net/~andyross
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