derekmski Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Hello Piriform team, I kind of get that the verify checks the hard drive for problems if I am right? Is that all it does? I was just curious. Defraggler is coming along! Nice job guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adchia Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 From the looks of it, looks like its doing a chkdsk on the drive (ie. checking it for drive errors) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindHydra Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Seems like it does not fix problems. Running chkdsk right after verifying still turns up errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thm Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Seems like it does not fix problems. Running chkdsk right after verifying still turns up errors. ...that will probably be because you can't correct errors on the boot drive (Windows volume) when windows is running. If you try "chkdsk -F" on your boot drive, Windows will not let you do it directly, but complain... Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by process. Would you like to schedule this volume checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) No doubt Defraggler can't do this either, for obvious reasons. Normally, you should have a "clean" disk (if your machine hasn't been crashing and you shut it down properly, so errors in the filing system should be fairly rare. So using Defraggler to effect a quick check is convenient. If Defraggler reports errors, then run chkdsk with the -F option and type Y to schedule a chkdsk -F on startup, then reboot and wait. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to fix things up, mind you, chkdsk isn't perfect ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindHydra Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Actually I tried it on my D drive (2nd partition) with the /f/v/x switches. After using defragger to verify, then run chkdsk d: /f/v/x, chkdsk says it fixed minor errors. I then run chkdsk again and it says there is no error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 23, 2008 Moderators Share Posted February 23, 2008 Actually I tried it on my D drive (2nd partition) with the /f/v/x switches. After using defragger to verify, then run chkdsk d: /f/v/x, chkdsk says it fixed minor errors. I then run chkdsk again and it says there is no error. chkdsk can be a bit goofy in my opinion because sometimes when running a read-only (non-repairing) scan it will find something on my system, then running it again and it finds nothing wrong. Which is why I rarely if ever run chkdsk anymore, and instead only occasionally use it to remove old indexes with the /V option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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