You can interrupt Chkdsk at any time by pressing Ctrl-C.
If Chkdsk finds any errors, it??™ll say so in its report. However, as suggested by
the WARNING! F parameter message in the report, it won??™t fix any problems it
finds unless you specifically instruct it to do so with the /f parameter, like
this:
chkdsk /f
The following terms describe most of the different types of problems that
Chkdsk might report:
Lost clusters
These are pieces of data that are no longer associated with any existing
files. They just need to be cleaned up.
Bad sectors
Bad sectors are actually physical flaws on the disk surface. Use the /r
option, explained shortly, to attempt to recover data stored on bad sectors.
Note that recovery of such data is not guaranteed (unless you have
a backup somewhere).
You may have one or more bad sectors if you see gibberish
when you view the contents of a directory (with the dir command),
or if Windows crashes or freezes every time you
attempt to access a certain file. Of course, this may also be
the work of the ???Green Ribbon of Death,??? covered later in
this chapter.
Cross-linked files
If a single piece of data has been claimed by two or more files, those files
are said to be cross-linked.
Invalid file dates or times
Chkdsk also scans for file dates and times that it considers ???invalid,???
such as missing dates or those before January 1, 1980.
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By default, Chkdsk will only scan the current drive (shown
in the prompt??”C:> for drive C:).
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