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SCANDISK
This section also appears in the DoubleSpace section. It
is here too because SCANDISK can diagnose and repair
errors on both uncompressed and DoubleSpaced drives.
SCANDISK is really one of the best new additions to DOS
6.2.
SCANDISK is a new program that for most purposes will
replace the CHKDSK and the DOUBLESPACE/CHKDSK commands.
However, when you want to quickly see how much space is
left on a disk, CHKDSK is the command to use. The old
CHKDSK DOS command would not fix cross-linked files.
SCANDISK can fix cross-linked files and clusters, and
lost clusters automatically. If you are using
DoubleSpace and sustain damage to a Compress Volume File
(CVF), SCANDISK can repair the CVF and often recover the
data. SCANDISK also does a "surface analysis" on a hard
disk. If SCANDISK finds unreliable sectors when doing
this surface analysis, it marks them as bad and moves the
data to reliable sectors on the hard drive.
To use SCANDISK change to the drive you want to scan and
at the system prompt, type:
scandisk <ENTER>
If you want to just check your C drive, type:
scandisk c: <ENTER>
If you want to check all your drives, you can issue this
command:
scandisk /all <ENTER>
If SCANDISK needs to fix a problem you will have the
opportunity to create an UNDO floppy disk. To create an
UNDO disk place a blank formatted diskette in drive A or
drive B and make the appropriate choice at the prompts.
This UNDO disk can be used to undo any changes that
SCANDISK may make.
To use the SCANDISK UNDO feature, you place the UNDO disk
in the appropriate drive and issue a command like this:
scandisk /undo a: <ENTER>
If you have DOS 6.2 installed, you can get more
information on SCANDISK by typing:
help scandisk <ENTER>