From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Exclusive access to drive
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 13:00:20 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> Btw, among the myriad of books on Windows 95 secrets, I've seen one
> which explicitly says that Microsoft wants to discourage people from
> using chkdsk, they want them to use scandisk instead.  It just might
> be that the message we see is part of this effort.  the only thing
> that I'd like to know is what exactly do they check to trigger the
> message.

you really do not have to read a win secrets book to see that they do
not want people using chkdsk. each time you run it, chkdsk prints 

Instead of using CHKDSK, try using SCANDISK.  SCANDISK can reliably
detect and fix a much wider range of disk problems.

  -- Sinan