Re: Scandisc problem

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From: Nick Austin
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:00

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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:10:37 GMT, p_f_james@lineone.net (Peter.James)
wrote:

>I had this problem.  Someone on this group advised me to run Scandisk
>under Dos from the Dos prompt using the command C:\Dos\Scandisk/all.
>It worked a treat, and I experience no problems with this as the
>solution.

The DOS version of scandisk may corrupt long file names.

Better to restart in "MS-DOS" mode then run
    C:\Windows\Command\Scandisk /all /custom

    /all    - checks all partitions
    /custom - takes default settings from scandisk.ini, usually this
              is set so that scandisk only asks questions if it
              encounters a problem.

Nick.

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