Scandisk Log Location

[spacesurfer]

When you run scandisk and it finds errors, where does it store the log so you can look at the errors?

Or does it at all keep a log.

[Takeshi]

There's no scandisk in WinXP. If you mean chkdsk then it's log file is in the Event Viewer.

[Andromeda43]

You mean like this:???

Microsoft ScanDisk

Log file generated at 06:44PM on Sunday, March 05, 2006.

ScanDisk checked drive C for problems, with the following results:

Directory structure

ScanDisk did not find any problems.

File allocation table

ScanDisk did not find any problems.

File system

ScanDisk did not find any problems.

Surface scan

ScanDisk did not perform any tests.

Like Takeshi said, in Windows XP there is NO scandisk and the scandisk from 98 or ME won't run on a NTFS partition.

Now if you're using 98 or ME and you're really talking about running the real "Scandisk.exe" then the log file will be "Scandisk.log" and it will be in the root directory.

I run XP-Pro but on a FAT-32 partition so I can still use the old Scandisk and it makes the log that I printed out above.

Good Luck,

Andromeda43 B)

[spacesurfer]

Actually, what I was referring to was the right-click on the hard drive and the GUI "check drive for errors" that comes up. I thought it was still called Scandisk but ooopss.

Anyway, after you run that, I wanted to see if any errors were fixed since it doesn't report whether any errors were found or not.

(It, of course, scans the OS drive after reboot since it can't do it within Windows XP).

Anyway, I will check the events viewer for the log.