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- From: galway@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Denis McKeon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Why does CHKDSK D: /F: 3 take 2 hours?
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- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:19:21 GMT
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- swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram N (Dr)) writes:
-
- >Subject: Re: Why does CHKDSK D: /F: 3 take 2 hours?
- >
- >Periodically, I do a CHKDSK of my HPFS partition (290 MB) from the
- >A: drive after booting up using the install diskettes.
- >
- >After invoking CHKDSK, I see the program reading the HDD and see
- >25 % complete on screen. Thereafter, it is a slooooow crawl, at the
- >rate of 10 minutes/ 5%. I should mention that there is 200MB free
- >space on the drive.
-
- Try using instead:
- CHKDSK D: /F:1
-
- I believe that the /F:3 is trying to comprehend your 200MB of free space
- as a recoverable file-system. slooooowly.
-
- --
- Denis McKeon Good. Fast. Cheap.
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