Chkdsk on Windows 2003 Service Pack 1/Service Pack 2

Sabo, Eric

Does anyone know of any good articles that explain what exactly happens
during the different stages of a chkdsk?

Are there any differences between Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 for
chkdsk?

Thanks,
Eric Sabo

Herb Martin

"Sabo, Eric" <> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of any good articles that explain what exactly happens
> during the different stages of a chkdsk?
>
> Are there any differences between Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 for
> chkdsk?

What sort of things do you wish to know?

Googling this might help:

[ chkdsk technical site:microsoft.com "/r" "/f" ]

I doubt there are any significant differences between SP1 and SP2 unless you
see new switches.

The following pretty much did it for me:

/F Fixes errors on the disk.
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
(implies /F).

But surely you want to know more if you are asking.... <grin>

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP

(phone on web site)

Sabo, Eric

Herb,

I try that already but it does not tell you the details to what exactly the
different stages do.

Approx how would it take for the different stages? If you have a
corrupted volume then do you only need to run chkdsk one time or do you need
to do two passes?

As for the differences:
Service Pack 1 - version 5.2.3790.1830 13 KB
Service Pack 2 - version 5.2.3790.3959 14 KB

So what enhancements/fixes are in Service Pack 2?


"Herb Martin" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Sabo, Eric" <> wrote in message
> news:.gbl...
>> Does anyone know of any good articles that explain what exactly happens
>> during the different stages of a chkdsk?
>>
>> Are there any differences between Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 for
>> chkdsk?
>
> What sort of things do you wish to know?
>
> Googling this might help:
>
> [ chkdsk technical site:microsoft.com "/r" "/f" ]
>
> I doubt there are any significant differences between SP1 and SP2 unless
> you
> see new switches.
>
> The following pretty much did it for me:
>
> /F Fixes errors on the disk.
> /R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
> (implies /F).
>
> But surely you want to know more if you are asking.... <grin>
>
> --
> Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
>
> (phone on web site)
>

Herb Martin

"Sabo, Eric" <> wrote in message
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> Herb,
>
> I try that already but it does not tell you the details to what exactly
> the different stages do.

I can't recall the prompts but they seemed reasonably explantatory when
running it.

Copy the exact wording down and try Googling on those phrases.

> Approx how would it take for the different stages? If you have a
> corrupted volume then do you only need to run chkdsk one time or do you
> need to do two passes?

I have never done it twice -- once has always been enough (when it worked
and it frequently does.)


> As for the differences:
> Service Pack 1 - version 5.2.3790.1830 13 KB
> Service Pack 2 - version 5.2.3790.3959 14 KB
> So what enhancements/fixes are in Service Pack 2?

Probably just bug fixes if any. Maybe just the version number.

Run the one that goes with your OS version only.

> "Herb Martin" <> wrote in message
> news:ueXe$.gbl...
>>
>> "Sabo, Eric" <> wrote in message
>> news:.gbl...
>>> Does anyone know of any good articles that explain what exactly happens
>>> during the different stages of a chkdsk?
>>>
>>> Are there any differences between Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 for
>>> chkdsk?
>>
>> What sort of things do you wish to know?
>>
>> Googling this might help:
>>
>> [ chkdsk technical site:microsoft.com "/r" "/f" ]
>>
>> I doubt there are any significant differences between SP1 and SP2 unless
>> you
>> see new switches.
>>
>> The following pretty much did it for me:
>>
>> /F Fixes errors on the disk.
>> /R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
>> (implies /F).
>>
>> But surely you want to know more if you are asking.... <grin>
>>
>> --
>> Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
>>
>> (phone on web site)
>>
>
>

Sabo, Eric

Herb,

I try that already but it does not tell you the details to what exactly the
different stages do.

Approx how would it take for the different stages? If you have a
corrupted volume then do you only need to run chkdsk one time or do you need
to do two passes?

As for the differences:
Service Pack 1 - version 5.2.3790.1830 13 KB
Service Pack 2 - version 5.2.3790.3959 14 KB

So what enhancements/fixes are in Service Pack 2?


"Herb Martin" <> wrote in message
news:ueXe$.gbl...
>
> "Sabo, Eric" <> wrote in message
> news:.gbl...
>> Does anyone know of any good articles that explain what exactly happens
>> during the different stages of a chkdsk?
>>
>> Are there any differences between Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 for
>> chkdsk?
>
> What sort of things do you wish to know?
>
> Googling this might help:
>
> [ chkdsk technical site:microsoft.com "/r" "/f" ]
>
> I doubt there are any significant differences between SP1 and SP2 unless
> you
> see new switches.
>
> The following pretty much did it for me:
>
> /F Fixes errors on the disk.
> /R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
> (implies /F).
>
> But surely you want to know more if you are asking.... <grin>
>
> --
> Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
>
> (phone on web site)
>

Herb Martin

"Sabo, Eric" <> wrote in message
news:.gbl...
> Herb,
>
> I try that already but it does not tell you the details to what exactly
> the different stages do.

I can't recall the prompts but they seemed reasonably explantatory when
running it.

Copy the exact wording down and try Googling on those phrases.

> Approx how would it take for the different stages? If you have a
> corrupted volume then do you only need to run chkdsk one time or do you
> need to do two passes?

I have never done it twice -- once has always been enough (when it worked
and it frequently does.)


> As for the differences:
> Service Pack 1 - version 5.2.3790.1830 13 KB
> Service Pack 2 - version 5.2.3790.3959 14 KB
> So what enhancements/fixes are in Service Pack 2?

Probably just bug fixes if any. Maybe just the version number.

Run the one that goes with your OS version only.

> "Herb Martin" <> wrote in message
> news:ueXe$.gbl...
>>
>> "Sabo, Eric" <> wrote in message
>> news:.gbl...
>>> Does anyone know of any good articles that explain what exactly happens
>>> during the different stages of a chkdsk?
>>>
>>> Are there any differences between Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 for
>>> chkdsk?
>>
>> What sort of things do you wish to know?
>>
>> Googling this might help:
>>
>> [ chkdsk technical site:microsoft.com "/r" "/f" ]
>>
>> I doubt there are any significant differences between SP1 and SP2 unless
>> you
>> see new switches.
>>
>> The following pretty much did it for me:
>>
>> /F Fixes errors on the disk.
>> /R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
>> (implies /F).
>>
>> But surely you want to know more if you are asking.... <grin>
>>
>> --
>> Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
>>
>> (phone on web site)
>>
>
>