Cuervo Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Hey folks,Anyone know of utility, free , that will let me do a physical scan of hard drive that has NTFS on it? I think I've got a laptop with a couple of bad sectors on it.Thanks for the help,-Cuervo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 The built in chkdsk tool is very good, you can run it from command prompt with certain switches. To get a full listing of those switches type:chkdsk /?all you probably need to use is the /F switch to fix errors if any are found, you will need to reboot so the volume can dismount before fixing these sectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuervo Posted May 15, 2003 Author Share Posted May 15, 2003 Yeah, I was kind of hoping there was something out there that could do it with out dismounting the drive. Thanks for the info.-Cuervo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 You could try Western Digital's LifeGuard tool, which works for all other hard drives as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuervo Posted May 25, 2003 Author Share Posted May 25, 2003 Well, I ended up getting diskeeper. It does a fine job, from what I can see.Thanks for the help,-Cuervo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 eh Diskeeper is a defragmenter tool, it doesn't fix errors on your hard disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuervo Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 Yeah, I kind of figured that one out afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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