Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

"Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Porpoise wrote:
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>> "Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>>> I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you both.  I have found from 
>>> personal experience that you can take a damaged drive, freshly re-format 
>>> it, run chkdsk, and not find anything.  Fill it with data, run chkdsk, 
>>> and it will locate bad sectors that never existed before.
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>>
>> Well that's logical..... you don't have an MFT until you start loading 
>> data - it's then that it will determine bad sectors. When you then 
>> reformat the drive, you lose that data (the table of bad sectors) [since 
>> the sectors only exist in software].
>
> Yep.  But the old Scandisk could check the empty sectors anyways...Chkdsk 
> doesn't.

Erm.... yes it does - that's stage 5:

"CHKDSK is verifying freespace (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification complete."

It then goes on to list the results. Here's the full output:


E:\>chkdsk /r
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is RECOVER.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.

  17567044 KB total disk space.
   6749860 KB in 6 files.
        12 KB in 13 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
     66548 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  10750624 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
   4391761 total allocation units on disk.
   2687656 allocation units available on disk.

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