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A Word to the Wise
Never
EVER
run chkdisk.
EVER.
EVER
run chkdisk.
EVER.
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deleting the whole ntfs directory because it found it corrupt is why.Comment
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Now doing a raw recovery, which could have been a normal recovery where i could have actually gotten the whole files with file names, but now?
NEVER run chkdisk!Comment
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Should that not be a message to the dumb? The wise would surely know already.
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Yeah go ahead and tell me I'm ****ing stupid.
chkdisk comes on and does this automatically on bootup. I come back to find it deleting everything. Screw this.Comment
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I've never heard of such a thing.
is it set to delete invalid thingies?Comment
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I have run chkdisk more times than I can count, and never had it do that!
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In extension to this, should we also NEVER run Scandisk and Defrag?
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
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Which defragmenter do you use, if not the built-in one? A "long" time ago I tried Diskeeper and decided it wasn't very good after it fried an NTFS partition.Comment
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^^^Comment
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been using dk8 and oo6 for a while now, there was some weirdness once when I was using my old KT7 but nothing remotely like that since I went to a SiS based mobo. The two happily coexist on my present machine. Hey Pit, erm KvH (sorry, the problem sounded like a typical TP episode) why is chkdsk running automatically? It never does this on my machine except sometimes when I press the reset button accidentally[size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
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What do you mean a typical TP episode. I just buy something new and it doesn't work.Originally posted by DentyCracker
been using dk8 and oo6 for a while now, there was some weirdness once when I was using my old KT7 but nothing remotely like that since I went to a SiS based mobo. The two happily coexist on my present machine. Hey Pit, erm KvH (sorry, the problem sounded like a typical TP episode) why is chkdsk running automatically? It never does this on my machine except sometimes when I press the reset button accidentally
Chkdsk is crap Microsoft should use something better.Comment
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I think that applies to virtually all MS software, no need to pick on chkdsk personally.Chkdsk is crap Microsoft should use something better.
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@DentyCracker: it's part of the boot process. If there seems to be a problem with your partition, chkdsk runs automatically.
Happened to me once that it deleted the whole tree. I didn't actually loose anything, just ran some of the gazillion recovery programs I have and installed a fresh copy of Windows on a new HDD.
It turned out the "crashed" HDD had a defective cluster. Low level format and chugging along happily the next day. It took me a day to do everything, but that's life
The *really* stupid thing in all this, and that's valid for scandisk too, is that you don't have *anything* to say about whether chkdsk should (yes) proceed will deleting your FAT/index or (noooooo) just stick to being happy to report that there's a problem and let you maybe find a better way to recover/repair it...Comment
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