Talk:CHKDSK

message: there are different versions.  originally chkdsk was a DOS thing, then changed to scandisk ,then back to chkdsk.  should this major section be called "Windows XP" or "Windows NT"? 141.155.28.92 00:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different CHKDSK versions 

message: In many old Windows manuals, I am told not to run Chkdsk /f while inside Windows.
Honestly, what's going to happen if I do that? (I couldn't find out for myself now.)--Kylohk 11:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't really know, but it seems to me after a lot of googling that it's unsafe to run chkdsk on reboot or something, but I'm not sure... WinterSpw (talk) 05:24, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using the Chkdsk command in Windows 

message: CHKDSK of the recovery console can not be invoced with the /f option.
However, it can be invoced using the /p option which is not available for CHKDSK of the CMD command line prompt.
Interestingly, after CHKDKS /P indentifies errors on the drive that can be fixed by CHKDSK /F it seems to shedule CHKDSK /F for the resepective drive for the next regular boot. I could not find any documentatiion about this, can this behaviour be confirmed?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.60.112.134 (talk) 09:34, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CHKDSK and recovery console 

message: What happened to the information about /f and /r command line flags?? 71.167.69.224 (talk) 18:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you know or can find a third-party source, just add . WP:V is not about the credibility of the Wikipedia editor; it is about the credibility of the source used (most people will never see who made a certain edit).--Jorfer (talk) 14:56, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, by "credible source", I mean that I probably don't know enough to make it accurate or correct. :P Cat1205123 (talk) 16:15, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Command line flags 

message: Hey, why does disk cleanup redirect to the CHKDSK page?
From my understanding they are totally different utilities.
XDnet.co.uk Putting the personal touch back into the web! (talk) 17:17, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disk cleanup redirect? 

message: >CHKDSK is the use of the Command-line/R parameter, which allows the program to repair damage it finds on the hard drive.
This is wrong, CHKDSK doesn't repair damage it copies data in bad sector AND replaces unreadable part of bad sector with zeros. Some data will be lost. Bold textIt is not tool for recovering the critical data.
87.226.26.236 (talk) 23:19, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad sectors 

message: Is there a law that says that wikipedia can't be useful?  If the correct solution is to go to another website, then maybe you should just put in a redirect, so we can go to the useful place and skip wikipedia altogether.  That would be far more helpful to most users.70.113.72.73 (talk) 19:35, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big comment at the top to remove the useful part of the article??? 

message: It should be mentioned that CHKDSK deletes readable files without warning or user's choice. It doesn't show the file path of file entries it changes or removes, just filenames and MFT id numbers. It makes the filesystem consistent but doesn't care about data loss.
This program is potentially dangerous for the user's data and shouldn't be run without a file backup onto another partition.
Once it starts running automatically at boot time and you missed the 10 seconds countdown to abort, you can only watch helplessly when it begins deleting file after file. There is no safe way to stop it. Some people reported it ran continuously for several days.
Let a Windows 7 CHKDSK "correct" a Windows XP NTFS partition and the latter doesn't work anymore due to missing system files and changes of security descriptors.
If you ask Microsoft support, they tell you the CHKDSK log can be found in the event viewer. They don't tell you that it is truncated there at 16kB and the full log file is in "System Volume Information" (Windows 7), a hidden directory no admin is allowed to read by default.
185.44.151.5 (talk) 09:58, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually you can read files in the "System Volume Information" if you are a user with administrator rights in Win 7. I don't know if it might be protected by UAC by default, but UAC does not hinder you from doing something, it is just annoying. --MrBurns (talk) 23:37, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  File system consistency > data loss