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To: wily who wrote (3859)6/1/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: RJL  Read Replies (1) of 110626
 
Hi wily,

The main difference between running Scandisk in thorough or standard mode is that thorough will do all of the standard tests as well as a physical surface check of your drive, which can take quite a bit of time. It's good to do a surface scan every month or so. Can identify bad sectors and other problems.

A standard test looks for lost clusters, broken links, truncated file names and various little hard drive problems. Usually doesn't take more than a minute, if that.

Rich
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