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Under Windows Vista Home Premium, has anyone found a way to save the report output of the Chkdsk runs performed at system startup? I prefer the way it ran in older versions of Windows. As I recall, you used to even be able to redirect screen output to a text file for later review such as by doing this:
chkdsk c: /f > Report.txt
Has anyone figured out how to save the Chkdsk output? Thanks, all.
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Yes, you're correct. I had to do a Find to locate the appropriate entries, but sure enough, they were there, Bob. Thanks very much.
Bob ... May I follow-up with a question regarding the Vista Event Viewer? I have to wonder whether it's "normal" to see so many error and warning messages in the logs for a system that seems to be working well.
Although I'm not too fond of Vista (meaning there are numerous annoyances and changes to adjust to), my system seems to be stable and runs well. However, when I opened the Vista Event Viewer to view my logs, there was a wide variety of errors and warnings.
For example, this morning I merely started my system (it was off for the night) and there are already six errors and warnings dated today. For example, I have three ACPI error messages like this:
ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 2
ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 3
ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 4
Yet, from where I'm sitting, the system seems to be working fine. Is it normal to find so many errors? Thanks and have a good one.
There are such errors and people never knew till they looked in the Event Viewer. Always put such into google.com to begin the investigation.
Bob
That syntax does work under Vista but it's not applicable if you're performing the scan on C: after a reboot, as you've found out. However, you might want to try booting to the Vista DVD and launching the Command Prompt from the 'Repair my computer" options. I'm not sure but I believe it should work then, provided you give it a full path instead of just a file name as the output location.
Hope this helps,
John
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