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  2. CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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    The chkdsk command on Windows XP. CHKDSK can be run from DOS prompt, Windows Explorer, Windows Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell or Recovery Console. [10] On Windows NT operating systems, CHKDSK can also check the disk surface for bad sectors and mark them (in MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 9x, this is a task done by Microsoft ScanDisk).

  3. Microsoft ScanDisk - Wikipedia

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    It included a more user-friendly interface than CHKDSK, more configuration options, [2] [3] and the ability to detect and (if possible) recover from physical errors on the disk. This replaced and improved upon the limited ability offered by the MS-DOS recover utility. [4] Unlike CHKDSK, ScanDisk would also repair crosslinked files. [5]

  4. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    Disk diagnostic utility. Scandisk was a replacement for the chkdsk utility, starting with MS-DOS version 6.2 and later. [1] Its primary advantages over chkdsk is that it is more reliable and has the ability to run a surface scan which

  5. System File Checker - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft ships this utility with Windows 98, Windows 2000 and all subsequent versions of the Windows NT family of operating systems. In Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 10, System File Checker is integrated with Windows Resource Protection (WRP), which protects registry keys and folders as well as critical system files.

  6. fsck - Wikipedia

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    The system utility fsck (file system check) is a tool for checking the consistency of a file system in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD. [1] The equivalent programs on MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows are CHKDSK, SFC, and SCANDISK.

  7. Data scrubbing - Wikipedia

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    As a copy-on-write (CoW) file system for Linux, Btrfs provides fault isolation, corruption detection and correction, and file-system scrubbing. If the file system detects a checksum mismatch while reading a block, it first tries to obtain (or create) a good copy of this block from another device – if its internal mirroring or RAID techniques are in use.

  8. ReFS - Wikipedia

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    The key design advantages of ReFS include automatic integrity checking and data scrubbing, elimination of the need for running chkdsk, protection against data degradation, built-in handling of hard disk drive failure and redundancy, integration of RAID functionality, a switch to copy/allocate on write for data and metadata updates, handling of ...

  9. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    Q: — Microsoft Office Click-to-Run virtualization. U: — Unix-like unified filesystem with virtual directory \DEV for device files under MiNT, MagiC, and MultiTOS. [8] [9] Z: — First network drive if using Banyan VINES, and the initial drive letter assignment for the virtual disk network in the DOSBox x86 emulator.