Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

Porpoise wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

I took that to mean it was verifying the amount of free space.  If it 
was actually looking for bad sectors, why did it never find them until 
data was copied?
> E:\>