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To: thecow who started this subject3/5/2004 4:18:14 PM
From: E  Read Replies (1) of 110652
 
So... I defragged my new Dell last night, and afterward decided to run ScanDisk, but discovered that there is no ScanDisk program installed.

I emailed Dave the techie from the grocery store bulletin board who helped me with the switch and asked him what the equivalent of ScanDisk was. He replied,

If you ran the defrag and it completed then it should be ok. defrag won't
run if your disk needs to be scanned. There is a program called chkdsk. if
you click run and type chkdsk then a scan disk will be scheduled at next
reboot.

I did do that, and there was a scanning operation.

Should I now forget the ScanDisk program? I mean, is that chkdsk program the same thing and just as good? And do you think it's correct that if a defrag runs your disk doesn't need scanning anyway?
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