1.ISMAT GODIL 2. NEHA B. PARDHI 3.

SHRADDHA BIJEWAR

4.PRIYA DHEKWAR

Scandisk is an MS-DOS utility that is incorporated into the Windows 95 operating system. To run Scandisk, you can click the Start Button, then choose Run, and then type in the word "Scandisk" (without the quotes). Clicking OK will bring up a dialogue box similar to the one shown below. Clicking Start will tell the computer to take a look at your Hard Disk and test it for physical imperfections and data errors. The scan can be done in Standard mode or Thorough mode and can be instructed to Automatically fix errors. This utility very useful in maintaining a healthy hard drive.

USESS OF SCAN DISK------Scandisk is normally used or run to scan for errors in hard drives and other removable drives. Due to the duty imposed on computer drives, they normally develop some errors which reduce efficiency and effectiveness. These errors come from not properly shutting down the computer, poor opening and closing of files, etc. When this happens, Check Disk is firstly recommended; then Scandisk is finally recommended when the errors become too tough for Check Disk.

- Bad Sectors are marked and fixed: If a bad sector is unfixable, it leaves it but ensures no file stay in it. Bad sectors are normally generated on drives when the computer is not properly shut down. These errors can cause malfunctioning of software packages and inefficiency of the overall system. -Errors are fixed:Bad sectors are not the only kinds of errors in the computer. We also have errors like bad allocation of files in the file tables, corrupt files, etc. Scandisk is also able to spot these errors and fix them.

-Correcting Damaged Files:Due to errors on drives, files are sometimes damaged. Scandisk is good at correcting such anomalies. It spots the damaged files and corrects them making them usable again.

Scandisk is a hard disk maintenance utility that is installed with the Microsoft Windows 9x operating systems. This utility

ScanDisk is a program that checks the files and the hard disk for errors in files. ScanDisk is normally used or run to scan for errors in hard drives and other removable drives

Scan Disk is one of the most common maintenance tools bundled with an operating system such as Windows. This is an application that checks the computers hard drive for errors and bad sectors. Once Scan Disk finds an error in the hard drive, it will attempt to fix it. There are a number of reasons for the errors found inside a hard drive. These include: frequent system crashes critical system applications that have been improperly closed the existence of harmful programs such as viruses, trojans, etc. While Scan Disk is running, it checks the hard disk for defects in its platters (these are round flat steel plates in the hard drive on which data is stored). It also checks file systems (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc.). It searches and corrects the lost and bad clusters that were created when a certain program was aborted.

Press the Start button on desktop Double click on My Computer Highlight the disk to be scanned for bad sector on the list of Hard Disk Drives. Open the File menu and select Properties option Select the Tools tab Click the Check Now button The scanning process will then initiate