Disk Check

Okay, I'll look for my Vista install disk and try to find myself a good drive tomorrow. Thank you for all of your help.

when I run disk check with 2nd method (chkdsk x:/F) I get message

"The type of file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."

It means that Windows thinks the disk is unformatted or has a file system other than NTFS/FAT.
Can you provide more information about what was on the disk?

Windows 7 i wanna ask, after scan and attemp recovery of bad sector finish, how to know our harddisk have bad sector or not, if after finish, i run chkdsk at cmd , and there is 0kb in bad sector, is that mean my harddisk don't have any problem?

Best i do it when in no hurry to go on PC, 1TB HDD

Hi Brink.

I am very impressed by your actively maintained blog—and your timely and polite replies to everyone's questions.

May I ask you a question? Until very recently, I had been using an XP machine. Thanks to a very old and excellent article in Maximum PC, I had got used to using Task Scheduler to perform an automated chkdsk with /f and /r once a week, at night.

It involved creating a batch file with the following commands:
echo y|chkdsk C: /f /r
shutdown /r

With my new computer, I am now getting used to Win 7. Never too late, as they say ;-) Unfortunately, neither the above batch file nor any other instruction I can find from trawling on the internet seems to have been able to achieve the same simple thing I used to be able to do on my computer, ie. create a scheduled task that reboots the computer and then automatically does a chkdsk with the fix and recover options. I have found several solutions on the internet. The trouble is, none of them appears to work :-(

I wondered if you might be able to help??? Hopefully...