On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 16:57:52, Spike wrote: > TB! told me the message bases were corrupted. The folder item > 'maintenance' was greyed out, and TB! said to run chkdsk. Well, this > is now called SCANDISK under Win-XP (hint, developers!).
No, it isn't. NT-based Windows never included scandisk, they contain chkdsk.exe that works in console (and can run in the bootup environment, before the window station is started up). FYI, the message about chkdsk wasn't even from The Bat, but from Windows itself - it's an usual message when Windows decides there's something wrong with the file you're trying to gain access to. > I ran > SCANDISK and it ZEROED OUT the message bases for these two lists, plus > about 5 others! Scandisk might have been the culprit - it's not a tool meant for NT/2k/XP (though I have a hard time believing it ran at all - unless your disks use FAT32). Zeroing out the files means that the errors were unrecoverable, though I haven't seen this happen on NTFS yet - but it's usual on FAT/FAT32, especially if a file was opened while the computer crashed. Anyway, to prevent this from happening in the future, convert your drives to NTFS. Not only your data will be safer, Windows will also start up faster. To do this, go to Start->Run and run CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS /X You'll have to reboot, and on startup, Windows will convert your drive to NTFS. This can take a while, depending on the number of files on your disk. -- < Jernej Simoncic ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > Actually, it only SEEMS as though you mustn't be deceived by appearances. -- The Obvious Law ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
