Re: Recovering lost clusters quickly

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 23:04

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In article <795975235snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
           mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" writes:

>I'm looking for some software which can quickly fix lost clusters - 
>preferably unattended. I have Norton Utilities, and obviously DOS's 
>CHKDSK, but both are slow, which I assume is down to them checking more 
>than I actually want them to check.

Look at scandisk. It has switches for unattended use. Chkdsk can prompt the
user even with /f set.

Scandisk may be no slower so long as you don't do a media scan.

-- 
John Beardmore     wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk
                   wookie@cix.compulink.co.uk

Remember children:  'M' is for Monoculture, Monopoly and for Microsoft.

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