Run Scandisk & Defrag at command prompt?

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Nancy - 31 Mar 2006 00:40 GMT

My defrag will not work because of an error that says to run scandisk
first.
I do but I still get the same error.
So I'd like to run a thorough scandisk at the command prompt.
Does anyone know the command for that.
Also need to know the command for defrag.
Thank you.

Nancy

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philo - 31 Mar 2006 01:50 GMT

> My defrag will not work because of an error that says to run scandisk
> first.
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> Also need to know the command for defrag.
> Thank you.

you can run scandisk in dos (from the command prompt)

but you cannot run defrag in dos

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Alan Edwards - 31 Mar 2006 02:03 GMT

Set the directory to C:\Windows\Command
Try:
Scandisk C: /surface
Use the help in DOS if you need more.

Get back to Windows before running defrag.
See if defrag runs correctly after that.

...Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html

>My defrag will not work because of an error that says to run scandisk
>first.
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>
>Nancy

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