scandisk .... i dont know if it actually works fully. the gui work son 8088 and 286 systems! :D
but the disk scanning may not bee implemented On Sun, 2025-03-02 at 10:04 +0100, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hallo Herr tom ehlert via Freedos-devel, > > am Sonntag, 2. März 2025 um 09:46 schrieben Sie: > > > Hi everybody, > > > just noted that DOSFSCK is missing from > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/. > > Which is sad as CHKDSK doesn't touch FAT32 drives. I'm not aware of > > other chkdsk like programs for FAT32. > > > Instead I stumbled over this gem of software > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/scandisk/ > > > Citing from SCANDISK.TXT > > > Hi Jim, > > > just before i left the office tonight i gave it a quick try to > > build the > > diskscan program. It creates a 1KB size COM file which does not > > much more > > than checking if it can read all sectors of a FAT12 or FAT16 > > partition. A > > very "basic" start for a "real" ScanDisk. As the file is not very > > large, i > > have the executable attached, just in case you want to put it in > > the files > > archive too. > > > I had a quick look at the Pascal source and this looks much more > > promising. > > It seems to be able to handle even FAT32 partitions, but i don't > > know how far. > > > have a good night, > > > Ralf > > > > Congratulations for this marvel of software engineering. > > Before someone mentions this to me, in this ZIP is also located the > much more serious > SCANDISK_PAS.ZIP, written in a program language defore comments were > invented. > > The only comment I could find was > (* if there are any errors above it is because I restarted > programming while I'm still sick!!! *) > > and there is SCANDISK05.ZIP. It's author Imre Leber is also author of > CHKDSK which suggests that > SCANDISK might be some graphical version of CHKDSK. At least CHKDSK > mentions a few common FAT errors that > it will find and fix. > > Unfortunately there is no description of > what this program is supposed to do other then HISTORY which suggest > that the author is jcosentino > > Congratulations again for this excellent software. > > Tom > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel -- founder of yellow rose group 💛️ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
