Howdy sherpaj-ga,
Greatly appreciate you accepting this as an Answer to your prior question.
First, the original question:
"...
My Win Server 2003 boot HD is reporting bad sectors
I went to backup my boot drive today, using TrueImage server (ver 6,
and then tried ver 7) and it would not work anymore.
It is reporting bad sectors. It has always worked in the past. I
even tried booting off the TrueImage CD and got the same messages
I tried to find ScanDisk, but could not find it.
Where is ScanDisk kept these days?
Will it fix my problems?
If not, What should I use?
..."
The prescribed diagnostics, etc.
These days chkdsk is used by Microsoft operating systems to do the
ScanDisk job. Even though this page is from the Microsoft XP section,
it shows how to operate chkdsk.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/chkdsk.asp
"Creates and displays a status report for a disk based on the file system.
...
chkdsk [volume:][[path] filename] [/f] [/v] [/r] [/x] [/i] [/c] [/l[:size]]
...
If you want to check the disk in drive D and have Windows fix errors, type:
chkdsk d: /f
If it encounters errors, chkdsk pauses and displays messages."
Make sure you read the whole page above for all the chkdsk flags and caveats.
Will it fix the problem? Maybe, maybe not. If your boot drive just started
reporting bad sectors, you might have caught the problem early. If it just
started reporting lots of bad sectors, try running chkdsk, and if it works,
back up the drive and then replace it as soon as possible. Do not even think
about "limping along" until gets worse. Drives are cheap, but data is not.
If it is just a few bad sectors, monitor your system carefully. You should
run chkdsk on your system on a regular (weekly) basis anyway, but you might
run it daily for the next week or so just to play it safe. If you get ever
increasing reports of bad sectors, back up and replace the drive.
...
You can get chkdsk to save a report by doing the command:
chkdsk c: report
Replace [c:] with the drive letter and [report] with whatever you want the
report name to be. Note that this will produce a report, but no repairs will
result from that run.
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- Go to Start
- Click on Run...
- Type in the word: command
- Click on OK
This should open a window and you should have a command prompt.
- Type in the following command and hit enter.
chkdsk c: >checkout.txt
It might take some time to run. When chkdsk is done, the command prompt will
appear once again.
Type in the following command and hit enter.
more checkout.txt
As the file is displayed, you can hit the space bar to display the next part
of the report.
If there are problems showing in the report, then type in the following and
hit enter.
chkdsk c: /f
Allow that to run all the way through, and see [if] that fixes things.
After that runs, or if the initial run of chkdsk does not report any
problems, then type exit at the command prompt to exit the command
line window.
...
Follow the usual Start, Run, command steps, then run chkdsk with this
flag:
chkdsk c: /R
If that doesn't work, try defragmenting the drive, and then run chkdsk
with the /F flag again:
chkdsk c: /F
It appears that by repeated runs of chkdsk and other software you had,
you got your imaging software finally worked, allowing you to transfer
your data to a new drive. Glad that the suggested purchase of new RAM
will work out for you as well. Happy days!
Search Strategy:
Went to the Microsoft web site and did searches there on related subjects,
along with personal experience.
http://www.microsoft.com
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