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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2001 18:42:18 PDT
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: CHKDSK Problem

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OK, everyone, thanks for your help. I also use the AUTOCHECK command in
the CONFIG.SYS and I do it on all of my partitions. That seems to work,
so I guess there is little need to perform a CHKDSK on the partitions
afterwards, when the system is fully up. Still, something has changed.
Previously, I was able to perform a CHKDSK on all partitions with the
system fully up. Now, "CHKDSK Partition: /F:2" does not work with
Partition = C or D, while it does work with it equal to E or F. Strange.

Thanks for your help

Harry Motin

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Steve Carter wrote:
>
>
> I believe Steven's points are correct. It only matters
> which partitions CHKDSK determines to be "in use". That you
> can perform a CHKDSK from floppies seems to confirm it.
>
> I have used the /AUTOCHECK:+D switch for HPFS.IFS with good
> results. A quick edit of CONFIG.SYS and a reboot might prove
> to be faster than booting from floppies.
>
> --Steve
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> On 5/22/01 Steven Levine wrote, in part:
> >on 05/22/01, Harry Chris Motin said:
> >>how either of these 2 programs could lock up my hard drives, or put them
> >>"in use", since I was not using either one, when I tried CHKDSK. Also,
> >>neither program makes any changes to the CONFIG.SYS file, ..., so I
> >
> >You definition of "in use" is not the correct definition for determining
> >if chkdsk can run with the /f switch. There are classes of "in use".
> >See my other reply. HTH, >Steven
> >--
>
>
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