Shortcut for Scandisk

desooperdesooper
edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
I was wondering if someone can help me, I would like to place a shortcut icon in my system tools on the start menu for scandisk or checkdisk, I am running windows xp home and if I go to start, all programs, accessories, system tools I would like to place a shortcut for scandisk or checkdisk in there, as of now there in not one in there, can anyone help me, thank you.

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  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    The easiest way to do it is create a shortcut to them.

    Right click on the desktop, click "New >> ShortCut" and for the location, type -

    defrag /f C:

    (change C: to the drive letter that you want to use)
    and for Checkdisk, simply do the same, but for the location, type -

    chkdsk /f /x C:

    (once again, change C: to the drive you want. If you just want to scan and not fix errors then leave off the /f /x. If you want to do a full scan of the drive, add /r )

    If you want to do one for all your drives then you need to use a BAT file, just say if you wan't to do that as I have one set up for my machine (its just basically a list of commands).
  • desooperdesooper
    edited January 2004
    Thank you very much for your help, it worked great, again thank you very much, desooper.
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