How to pause chkdsk so that you can see what errors may have occurred?

[foolios]

In XP, as far as I know, the system has to restart in order to allow chkdsk to work on the drive.

Well, it takes a while and I miss the messages at the end of the test. I have no idea whether it corrected anything or whether everything turned up fine.

How can I have it wait for me to view the results? Or where can I find the results at?

Is there a way to run chkdsk in XP without rebooting? What happens if I attempt this in safe mode?

[IcemanND]

it will log to the event viewer, look under the winlogon events.

[gosh]

You can run chkdsk without rebooting, just do start, run, chkdsk

you only need to reboot if chkdsk needs full access to the volume. in that case it adds autochk to the memory management startup registry key. And like iceman said, all the output is logged to event viewer.

-gosh

[foolios]

I can't find a line that says chkdsk or see what could represent the action.

Even in safe mode if I use the command prompt, I'll get the message that the volume is in use and it asks me if I want to do it at reboot. No biggee as long as I can figure out this log file view.

Thanks all.