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Old 10-03-2006   #1
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Just a general question about it. What does it really do? I mean, what are teh principals behind it. I know it checks through your hard drives and see if there's any flaws anywhere and if you've given it a specific parameter it'll repair it and so on.

So that's that. I just want to know what it really does, as in what it's programmed to do.
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Hi JawniHawni

I just did a quick google search and found this hope it helps.

CHKDSK - CHecK DiSK
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Hi Jawni,

The original version (that came with DOS) would go through every sector of the hard drive and detect whether or not it was corrupt or useable. It was a good tool as a first line of defense to remove the bad sectors...try and right them.

Unfortunatly I believe they may have changed the code to fit it in with Windows XP...and lost it's goodness.
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Originally Posted by GaRHaR

Unfortunatly I believe they may have changed the code to fit it in with Windows XP...and lost it's goodness.
The goodness is still there if you run it from the Recovery Console: Chkdsk /r

How to install and use the Recovery Console in Windows XP
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