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Posted Oct 21, 2005 4:57 UTC (Fri) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
In reply to: Windows doesn't have fsck by dark
Parent article: Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet)

That's a cluster-scandisk these days.


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Posted Oct 21, 2005 7:27 UTC (Fri) by rqosa (guest, #24136) [Link]

Actually it's chkdsk. Unless I'm mistaken, Windows NT and its successors have always used chkdsk, whereas scandisk first showed up in MSDOS 6 (or maybe 5), and hasn't been used since Windows Millenium Edition (the last non-NT Windows).

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Posted Oct 21, 2005 13:37 UTC (Fri) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]

scandisk was first available in MS-DOS 6.2, IIRC.

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Posted Oct 22, 2005 18:45 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

That would be a cluster-scandskw

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Posted Nov 12, 2010 19:06 UTC (Fri) by naesten (guest, #71199) [Link]

Not unless it's user-initiated, after Windows 95 has already booted!

But the question remains: who in their right minds would have a cluster running Windows 95 in the first place?

(Okay, okay, so maybe you could use ME instead ... but is that even an improvement?)

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