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SCANDISK
You may have noticed that this SCANDISK 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 replaces
the CHKDSK and the DOUBLESPACE/CHKDSK commands. However,
when you quickly want to 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 Compressed 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, issue this command:
scandisk /all <ENTER>
If SCANDISK needs to fix a problem you have the
opportunity to create an UNDO floppy disk. DOS will
prompt you. 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, place the UNDO disk in
the A drive, for example, 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>