Need to run scandisk in dos

yak.h'cir · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:10

I've got a winXP laptop with a corruped hard drive. Want to run scandisk to try and fix it but it wont for want of trying let me.

How exactly do you run scandisk in dos?

Cheers!

ns400r · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:16

If your disk is NTFS then you can't use the old DOS version of SCANDISK as it can't read and repair NTFS partitions.

Try to use CHKDSK from XP.

M0KUJ1N · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:16

chkdsk /r <drive letter:>

yak.h'cir · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:20

It is NTFS, but can't boot to windows.

The above command just gives response: Bad command or file name.

hybrid · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:21

Use an XP CD and boot recovery mode.

yak.h'cir · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:24

I was looking to do that, but its only got these recovery disks that came with the laptop. I'm assuming one has XP on it, but when you boot from them I cant see the recovery consol, just an option to format and reinstall. I'd rather not try that just yet!

I've had a similar problem before on my main computer (sys file corrupt/not found so couldnt boot) I was able to run scandisk somehow and that fixed it straight away...

yak.h'cir · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:46

Think i'll try and get hold of a mates XP disk and run the recovery console from that. Hopefully it wont be too hard!