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Scandisk and DOS
I have a very sick laptop. It's so bad that Windows 89
wont load. There are lots of bad sectors being reported by scandisk. So far I am at 30% and it's taken me almost three weeks to get this far. Everytime scandisk encounters an error it stops and askes if I want to repair it. Is there a way in DOS to get scandisk to autofix so it can be left unatended? |
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Scandisk and DOS
scandisk c: /autofix /noprompt /nosave /surface
-- Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/ Catalog of removal tools http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters "Keith" wrote in message ... | I have a very sick laptop. It's so bad that Windows 89 | wont load. | | There are lots of bad sectors being reported by scandisk. | So far I am at 30% and it's taken me almost three weeks to | get this far. Everytime scandisk encounters an error it | stops and askes if I want to repair it. | | Is there a way in DOS to get scandisk to autofix so it can | be left unatended? |
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Scandisk and DOS
"Keith" wrote:
I have a very sick laptop. It's so bad that Windows 89 wont load. There are lots of bad sectors being reported by scandisk. So far I am at 30% and it's taken me almost three weeks to get this far. Everytime scandisk encounters an error it stops and askes if I want to repair it. Is there a way in DOS to get scandisk to autofix so it can be left unatended? A hard drive with that many bad sectors is usually one that is about to join the "dearly departed". If you really want to repair the drive and recover the useful content from these bad sectors then you should be using Spinrite from Gibson Research (www.grc.com) rather than Scandisk. Scandisk cannot recover content and clusters marked bad by Scandisk usually complicate the repair and recovery of the data by Spinrite. Spinrite can be very slow - I can recall it taking 76 hours to process a 4 gb drive - but it does work. With that 4 gb drive I was able to recover all of the customer's critical data. The drive became dumpster food shortly thereafter. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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