On Thursday August 15 2002 01:32 pm, frankie wrote:
> Has anyone noticed how XP doesn't have scandisk like previous
> versions of Winblows?
>
> instead they have chkdsk, which when running in "write mode" can only
> run when the drive has nothing else running... (ie at boot do it can
> dismount the drive if necessary..
>
> sound familiar? they are now doing it the same way fsck does.. how
> interesting is that..
Winblows always use to have 'chkdsk' which could only be run in DOS,
before the win9x versions began sporting 'scandisk'. To this day, the
DOS version of scandisk, /c/windows/command/scandisk.exe, and uses
/c/windows/command/chkdsk.exe (that's from my W98 install and'a
'locate' from Linux, so forgive the 'backward' foward slashes ;), does
a more thorough (also potentially more dangerous to non-M$ partitions)
check/fix than the versions that can run under their bloaty GUI. You
have to hack win9x/ME a touch to get to the underlying pure DOS tho.
Same for their Registry fix/compress tools (scanreg /fix, scanreg
/opt). M$ just keeps tryin harder an' harder to hide 'em from users
'cause can they can fsck up (both M$ and their users ;)
So I don't believe they're "now" doin it, sounds more like business
as usual or a regression (innnovation in M$peak) to me .... specially
since they keep wanna stickin with proprietary file systems that suck,
only improvement are that M$ continues to make them more proprietary.
So I guess there's nothin new at all ;) Well, 'cept for needin to
agree to give M$ root class privledges to your software, and rights to
your personal information and some other user concessions just so you
can apply their bug fix service packs to w2K or XP.
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