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Tomorrow, Dell comes to my house to get my new laptop up and running. It will have WinXP. Win98 had ScanDisk. Bill Gates chose to not put that into Win2000 as a readily available item; sure he made chkdsk available but more than two years went by before I found out it was there. His stupid blunder may be the ultimate cause of why I had some many problems with my old computer. What will WinXP have in the way of ScanDisk or chkdsk? I dunno about the other items, however, there is NO scan disk with Win XP, its a more lengthy process, right click disk drive, click tools, click error checking and then 2 check marks in the boxes and then reboot, this fix bad sector areas and fix system files, its 5 steps and it takes a while > Tomorrow, Dell comes to my house to get my new laptop up > and running. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > some many problems with my old computer. > What will WinXP have in the way of ScanDisk or chkdsk? Chkdsk. If you type scandisk in help it tells you.  Signature---------------------------------------------------------- 'Not happy John! Defending our democracy', http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html > Tomorrow, Dell comes to my house to get my new laptop up > and running. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > some many problems with my old computer. > What will WinXP have in the way of ScanDisk or chkdsk? It took you TWO YEARS to learn about chkdsk and you call Bill Gates stupid??? I think that if you were to go to a dictionary and look up the work STUPID, you would find your picture there. Bobby > Tomorrow, Dell comes to my house to get my new laptop up > and running. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > some many problems with my old computer. > What will WinXP have in the way of ScanDisk or chkdsk? The emotional nature of your response shows that you have lost objectivity of the problem. >-----Original Message----- >It took you TWO YEARS to learn about chkdsk and you call Bill Gates [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >. No problems here...I wasn't emotional at all when I responded. It does not take me 2 years to learn how to use a new OS, and when I make a mistake or do something stupid, I don't blame it on Bill Gates and call him stupid. By the way, I typed this slowly because I know you can't read very fast. I also tried not to use any big words. In all seriousness, in TWO YEARS you never once right clicked on a drive icon to use Defrag, or to check the status of a drive? It took you TWO YEARS to "learn" about a part of windows that you could have found by using "Help and Support"? Then you say that it was an intentional act by Bill Gates? Get a life. Bobby > The emotional nature of your response shows that you have > lost objectivity of the problem. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> >>. The stupid blunder is all yours.. have fun looking for the swapfile.. if you haven't found it at the end of two years, come back and ask.. On a serious note, the first thing that you should do is change the XP look to 'classic' and set visual effects to 'best performance' or you are going to have a helluva time adjusting.. > Tomorrow, Dell comes to my house to get my new laptop up > and running. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > some many problems with my old computer. > What will WinXP have in the way of ScanDisk or chkdsk? As others have told you, WinXP has chkdsk. Scandisk was not a "save-all" by any means. In fact, it could be quite dangerous. Evidentally you never ran across its "automatically fix errors" which turned 99% of the files on the system into .chk files thereby totally destroying the installation. Without knowing what went wrong with your old system, it would be impossible to say whether or not chkdsk would have helped. SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org > Tomorrow, Dell comes to my house to get my new laptop up > and running. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > some many problems with my old computer. > What will WinXP have in the way of ScanDisk or chkdsk? |
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