Power Outage Windows Scan Disk

Max Powerz · Oct 12, 2004, 09:33 PM

Hey, my power went out last nite so my comp went off without shutting down normally, then i restarted after it went back on.. and it went off again, lol. Anyway should I run a scandisk whenever something like this happens? I remember windows 98 (and even windows 2000 I think) used to auto scandisk, why doesn't XP do this?

Shinjikun · Oct 13, 2004, 02:22 AM

Windows XP will run check disk when it feels like it's needed, especially if it was in the middle of writting something when the computer got shut off. If your computer rebooted and it didn't come up then it felt like it didn't need to run, although you can run it yourself manually to be sure.

Max Powerz · Oct 13, 2004, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Shinjikun

Windows XP will run check disk when it feels like it's needed, especially if it was in the middle of writting something when the computer got shut off. If your computer rebooted and it didn't come up then it felt like it didn't need to run, although you can run it yourself manually to be sure.

Cool, thanks

Shinjikun · Oct 13, 2004, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Max Powerz

Cool, thanks

No problem Max.

Oct 12, 2004, 09:33 PM	#1
Max Powerz DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 650 Rep Power: 0	Power Outage Windows Scan Disk Hey, my power went out last nite so my comp went off without shutting down normally, then i restarted after it went back on.. and it went off again, lol. Anyway should I run a scandisk whenever something like this happens? I remember windows 98 (and even windows 2000 I think) used to auto scandisk, why doesn't XP do this? Last edited by Max Powerz; Oct 13, 2004 at 02:55 AM.

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