[Discussion] UN-Documented CheckDisk Option for Boot Drive

[Thomas Clayton]

Chuck:

One pertinent question:
What version are you trying the command with?

I'll let you allll know my data points (W3C-FPnone, Merlin etc.) in the
future - when I get them running again!

TomC

--- Chuck McKinnis <mckinnis at sandia.net> 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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