Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:11:36 -0700 (PDT) | From | Gordon Chaffee <> | Subject | Re: [OT] NTFS is fast at fsck/chkdsk NOT ! |
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DAVID BALAZIC writes: > From: Gordon Chaffee <chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu> > >The only reason you are seeing chkdsk run is because your filesystem > >is FAT based, not NTFS. chkdsk never runs on an NTFS filesystem. > >Check your facts a little more carefully before posting. > > I rechecked it , bot explorer properties and WinNT Diagnostics > say that it is NTFS. ( drive C: , the only one )
Time to eat my words. Based on feedback, it appears a chkdsk can run on NTFS if a disk is sufficiently corrupted. I had never seen it run on anything but a FAT filesystem after crashing NT, and I had never seen any reference to checking an NTFS filesystem.
- Gordon
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