CHKDSK report
 

I had just run CHKDSK because of some BSODs I have been getting. I had it automatically fix file system errors and scan for and attempt to repair bad sectors. When it was done it automatically restarted the computer and booted into Windows. Is there a log or report I can look at to see what it did? I'm just curious to see if it detected anything. I've got Windows XP with SP2.

Go to; Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer and click on the Application Log. Scroll down to the time of the disc scan and look for an entry similar to: Information xxTime xxDate Winlogon xxx xxx N/A. Double click on it and scroll in the report.

If you didn't use the 'f switch, you need to look in the system log though.

I didn't use the F switch. I'm not sure what that is.

Isn't that for "fix" without prompting?

So it's the option that I selected to automatically fix file system errors? If that's the case then yes, I used it. However, I don't see a log in the event viewer for the CHKDSK I did yesterday.

chkdsk alone just looks for errors

chkdsk /f fixes errors

chkdsk /r will repair damaged sectors and attempt to recover the data on it - but if you have to use this, your HD is on the way out and you better start looking at buying a new HD because you old one isn't going to be around much longer.

-S

PS. It is a good idea to run a chkdsk /f once in a while. It will fix the occasional problem (though this is not supposed to happen on a journalising file system, but still) / data corruption that occurs over time. If weird things start happening to your computer, run this first since possibly a driver or application has become corrupted - this happens on NTFS too.