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To: thecow who wrote (39874)	3/5/2004 5:38:38 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Great, tc. Thank you. A related question: If you've just finished defragging when you run chkdsk, I assume your programs are closed down (for example with EndItAll) as it runs. When I used to run ScanDisk myself, I'd close everything down first, but sometimes when I had several windows open and was working at the computer, it would start running spontaneously, so I wondered whether it was actually necessary to close down your programs first... ?

To: thecow who wrote (39874)	3/5/2004 10:36:07 PM
From: Troutbum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

If you run chkdsk from a Command Prompt, the following switches are available: /F Instructs Chkdsk to fix any errors. The disk must be locked. If Chkdsk cannot lock the drive (as is always the case with the system drive), it offers to check the drive the next time you restart the computer. /V Displays verbose output, listing the name of every file in every directory as the disk check proceeds. /R Identifies bad sectors and recovers information from those sectors if possible. The disk must be locked. The following switches are only valid on NTFS volumes: /I Performs a simpler check of index entries, reducing the amount of time required. /C Skips the checking of cycles within the folder structure, reducing the amount of time required.