What Happened to the Scandisk Program?
Win9x/ME users have been asking me what happened to the Scandisk program. The answer is that Scandisk is gone! Good riddance, I say. In my long-ago experiences with the Scandisk program, I found it slow and inefficient. Scandisk has been replaced by the more powerful disk-checking tool: chkdsk. You can run chkdsk from the command prompt or from a GUI. To run it from the graphical interface, try this: • Click Start and then click My Computer. • Right click on the drive you want to check and click Properties. • Click on the Tools tab. On the Tools tab, click the Check Now button. • Select both the Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors option. Click Start. • You may see a dialog box that tells you that chkdsk needs exclusive access to the disk and can check the disk after a restart. Click Yes to check the disk the next time you start the computer. If you select this option, make sure you restart the computer as soon as possible. I’ve noticed
