Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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Chkdsk

September 24th, 2014, 15:05

Hello!

Is there any benefit from doing the the 5 phase Scandisk (chkdnk) to test & fix the software bad sectors and whatnot - if I will later format the drive using the HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool or the DISKPART CLEAN ALL command?

Thanx!

Re: Chkdsk

September 24th, 2014, 15:38

Bellzemos wrote:Hello!

Is there any benefit from doing the the 5 phase Scandisk (chkdnk) to test & fix the software bad sectors and whatnot - if I will later format the drive using the HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool or the DISKPART CLEAN ALL command?

Thanx!


no

Re: Chkdsk

September 24th, 2014, 20:08

OK, from now on I'll only be formatting, thank you.
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