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To: wily who wrote (3859)	6/1/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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