i got a warring at boot that 1 of my drives is failing. i ran the scandisk and found after About 85% done i have some bad sectors on my drive. scandisk didn't fix them so is there a way to mark them bad or have scandisk fix them?
View 6 RepliesYeahsr ago in the DOS days, everytime my computer would crash I would always do a scandisk or check disk to view and delete lost clusters and look for file errors on the hard drive due to the crash. With Windows vista, is there any need to check for these things after a system crash? I find I can't run chkdsk from the cmd prompt in Vista, does annyonw know how? And also, do I need to or as I said above, is there a different way of doing this? What's the normal thing I can do in Vista to check the HD for file problems on my C drive, after a system crash.
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