disc

[henrys]

i am using xp
done disc clean up
cannot find scan disc
to use it
ur help please

[Pseudopath]

You need to go into My Computer, right-click on the drive and select Properties. Now select the Tools tab and click on 'Check Now...'. You should now be given options to fix file system errors and attempt recovery of bad sectors.

If the drive you're checking contains the Windows installation, you'll probably be prompted to schedule the check for the next reboot (as Windows can't check the drive from which it's running), just click Yes and reboot the computer to carry out the scan.

[henrys]

thank you p
for your nice info
i wil try that later
thanks again

[henrys]

i did what u said
but i do not see the tools tab
thank you

[AussieGeoff]

G'Day

Just for reference, scandisk does not exist in XP, Microsoft rewrote it and called it ChkDsk (Check Disk) which was what it was called in the days of DOS and win95/98.

Geoff

[henrys]

hello
ok does that mean
i cannot do a scan disc
thank you for info

[AussieGeoff]

G'Day Henry

Yes you can scan the disk and find lost clusters etc. The name of the program you use in XP is called chkdsk - as I said in my previous post microsoft renamed it. chkdsk in XP was called scandisk in ME, NT and 2K.

Just double click My Computer then right click on the disk drive (partition) you want to check. Left click on Properties then left click the Tools tab, left click the Check Now button, a new window will open, tick/check both boxes and press OK. If you get a message about checking the next time you boot, click OK. chkdsk will then run the next time you restart/boot windows. If you do not get the message, chkdsk will run immediately.

When chkdsk runs, it will fix indexes, find lost clusters and everything the old scandisk (on earlier versions of windoze) does.

Geoff

[henrys]

g morning aussie
thanks once again
for info