RE: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

2010-06-01 Thread David Lum 
Closethis does indeed do a /F but I need the sector checking to happen as 
well. I am trying an SMS push of CHKDSK /F < y.txt   (with the appropriate text 
file of course).

Dave

From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 9:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

You could script setting the dirty bit with fsutil-

fsutil dirty set C:


If a volume's dirty bit is set, this indicates that the file system may be in 
an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because the volume is online 
and has outstanding changes, because changes were made to the volume and the 
computer shutdown before the changes were committed to disk, or because 
corruption was detected on the volume. If the dirty bit is set when the 
computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the consistency of the volume.
Every time Windows XP starts, Autochk.exe is called by the Kernel to scan all 
volumes to check if the volume dirty bit is set. If the dirty bit is set, 
autochk performs an immediate chkdsk /f on that volume. Chkdsk /f verifies file 
system integrity and attempts to fix any problems with the volume.


From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

...having 300 users run CHKDSK /R?

I need to roll out PGP encryption to this many laptops and I want to do a disk 
health check first. I don't really want to depend on my users doing it, but 
since you can't work while a Windows surface check is running I can't just 
arbitrarily push it out. Alternately is there a 3rd party tool that can do this 
while the OS is running?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764










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RE: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

2010-06-01 Thread Ziots, Edward 
Dam forgot about the fsutil I gotta go with Bob on this one I forgot
about that trick totally...

 

Z

 

Edward Ziots

CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

401-639-3505

ezi...@lifespan.org

 

From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

 

You could script setting the dirty bit with fsutil- 

 

fsutil dirty set C:

 

 

If a volume's dirty bit is set, this indicates that the file system may
be in an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because the volume
is online and has outstanding changes, because changes were made to the
volume and the computer shutdown before the changes were committed to
disk, or because corruption was detected on the volume. If the dirty bit
is set when the computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the consistency
of the volume. 

Every time Windows XP starts, Autochk.exe is called by the Kernel to
scan all volumes to check if the volume dirty bit is set. If the dirty
bit is set, autochk performs an immediate chkdsk /f on that volume.
Chkdsk /f verifies file system integrity and attempts to fix any
problems with the volume. 

 

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

 

...having 300 users run CHKDSK /R?

 

I need to roll out PGP encryption to this many laptops and I want to do
a disk health check first. I don't really want to depend on my users
doing it, but since you can't work while a Windows surface check is
running I can't just arbitrarily push it out. Alternately is there a 3rd
party tool that can do this while the OS is running?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

RE: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

2010-06-01 Thread Free, Bob 
You could script setting the dirty bit with fsutil- 

 

fsutil dirty set C:

 

 

If a volume's dirty bit is set, this indicates that the file system may
be in an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because the volume
is online and has outstanding changes, because changes were made to the
volume and the computer shutdown before the changes were committed to
disk, or because corruption was detected on the volume. If the dirty bit
is set when the computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the consistency
of the volume. 

Every time Windows XP starts, Autochk.exe is called by the Kernel to
scan all volumes to check if the volume dirty bit is set. If the dirty
bit is set, autochk performs an immediate chkdsk /f on that volume.
Chkdsk /f verifies file system integrity and attempts to fix any
problems with the volume. 

 

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

 

...having 300 users run CHKDSK /R?

 

I need to roll out PGP encryption to this many laptops and I want to do
a disk health check first. I don't really want to depend on my users
doing it, but since you can't work while a Windows surface check is
running I can't just arbitrarily push it out. Alternately is there a 3rd
party tool that can do this while the OS is running?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

RE: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

2010-06-01 Thread Ziots, Edward 
Maybe have them have a shutdown script with the scheduling of the chkdsk
/R and have them reboot, which could get them check disking after they
reboot. 

 

Z

 

Edward Ziots

CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

401-639-3505

ezi...@lifespan.org

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

 

...having 300 users run CHKDSK /R?

 

I need to roll out PGP encryption to this many laptops and I want to do
a disk health check first. I don't really want to depend on my users
doing it, but since you can't work while a Windows surface check is
running I can't just arbitrarily push it out. Alternately is there a 3rd
party tool that can do this while the OS is running?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

Re: OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

2010-06-01 Thread James Rankin 
You can probably use chkdsk with the right switches as a logon or startup
script to perform a disk(s) check at next reboot

On 1 June 2010 16:40, David Lum  wrote:

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> I need to roll out PGP encryption to this many laptops and I want to do a
> disk health check first. I don’t really want to depend on my users doing it,
> but since you can’t work while a Windows surface check is running I can’t
> just arbitrarily push it out. Alternately is there a 3rd party tool that
> can do this while the OS is running?
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> *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER
> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
> (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764
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OK boys and girls, how do you go about...

2010-06-01 Thread David Lum 
...having 300 users run CHKDSK /R?

I need to roll out PGP encryption to this many laptops and I want to do a disk 
health check first. I don't really want to depend on my users doing it, but 
since you can't work while a Windows surface check is running I can't just 
arbitrarily push it out. Alternately is there a 3rd party tool that can do this 
while the OS is running?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764


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