[Discussion] UN-Documented CheckDisk Option for Boot Drive

[Joseph Hansen]

March 4, 2007

What does "TMMV" mean?

Thanks, Joe Hanen


On Mar 4, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

> YMMV
>
> Thomas Clayton wrote:
>> Dear Group:
>>
>> While flipping through old copies of
>>
>> The Cobb Group; _Inside OS/2_
>>
>> to decide whether I wanted to keep them,
>> I came across something that MAY be of
>> GREAT interest to us; specifically
>>
>> "Running CHKDSK on the startup drive"
>>  pp. 11-12 of Vol.4 No.2
>>  (February 1995)(Copyright 1995)
>> .
>> At the end of the article is a statement to the effect
>>  ~you can run CHKDSK on your boot drive IF you use this
>>   UNdocumented technique~
>>
>> CHKDSK C: /F /aUtOcHeCk
>> .
>> The word "aUtOcHeCk" IS CASE sensitive!
>>
>> Now remember, also, that this was in the days of
>> OS/2 Borg (despite the date on the periodical!) and,
>>  so might NOT apply to Warp and Merlin.
>>
>> We'll have to test and see; but I thought you'd like to know!
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Thomas Clayton
>
> [C:\]CHKDSK C: /F /aUtOcHeCk
> The current hard disk drive is: C:
> The type of file system for the disk is HPFS.
> The HPFS file system program has been started.
> SYS0543: /aUtOcHeCk is not a valid parameter with the CHKDSK
> command when checking a hard disk.
>
> -- 
> Chuck McKinnis
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>
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