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In chkdsk, what is an online scan?
Running Windows 8.0 Pro, chkdsk has a /scan option that Runs a online scan on the volume (sic). What is an online scan?
My guess is that it runs it while letting you use the drive, which is good if ...
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Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10?
Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10 ?
The new options are
1./scan
2./forceofflinefix
3./perf
4./spotfix
5./sdcleanup
6./offlinescanandfix
7./freeorphanedchains
8./markclean
I ...
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In chkdsk, does /b imply /f?
This is one of those small everyday things that I've always wondered but have always considered too trivial to ask. I decided to in the end because it's interesting to know and would save me a few ...
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save multiple chkdsk logs to single file
I am creating a batch file to run chkdsk on every drive and log the output to a single file.
I am able to run a chkdsk and log it to a file with:
chkdsk a: > %userprofile%\desktop\test.log
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chkdsk in cmd is stuck?
I've encountered a problem with my sd card which I use for my phone, saying it's corrupted (suddenly, haven't had problems before), so I decided to try and salvage it without formatting the card. I've ...
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Windows - Can't delete / get rid of a file on a damaged cluster
My laptop started to do a CheckDisk/CHKDSK every boot, and after some investigations, I found the culprits : some files on damaged clusters.
With a little bit of perserverance, I finally managed to ...
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Chkdsk taking almost two days
I used chkdsk /r on my 32GB SDHC card but it has already taken almost two days.
While I was listening to music, which was in the sd card, on my smartphone, suddenly it told me the sd card is ...
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Ntfs partition is broken and needs repairs. Why does the troubleshot in Winre/Winpe menu is disabled as consequence of that?
Well looks Windows live always look at all disk because even from the install dvd I am landing on this screen
Not only text does not appear but this menu
(source)
is disabled for an unknown reason. ...
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How to chkdsk completely unattended
have a question about scheduling chkdsk: I'm running chkdsk on task scheduler in windows 7 for my main hardrive (where windows is installed) using the following
command: echo y|chkdsk /f /r.
But I ...