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running Checkdisk on a floppy disk

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by japtech 1 view

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Windows XP is better than Windows 98 in many ways but one thing i miss is that when you ran Scandisk on a floppy disk in Win 98 it would give you a report of how many bytes were found in bad sectors and whether it was able to repair them. Windows XP's Checkdisk does not do that. It just runs and then finishes. It leaves you wondering if any problems were found on the disk.

Does anyone know of a freeware program that will Check a floppy for errors and give a report in Windows XP??.....Or maybe there is a way to get Win XP checkdisk to do it that i am not aware of.

Lan Hikari japtech@fastmail.fm

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by brigham

Chkdsk works great and displays the report in DOS.
here is a shortcut maybe others will appreciate.
1. Hold the Windows button down while tapping the 'R' key This will bring up a command window.
2. Type CMD (Enter)
3. In the DOS window type CHKDSK A: /F
4. When finished type exit
5. Optional if you want to print a copy of the report use CHKDSK A: /F >CKDK.TXT
Note what directory you are defaulted to and your text file will be in that folder when you return to windows.

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