You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a Windows-based
network. You do maintenance work on a Windows 2000 Professional computer. You require to
perform the following jobs:
Exhaustive disk checking.
Locate bad sectors (if any).
Recover readable information.
Which of the following commands will you use to accomplish the task?
A.
CHKDSK /v
B.
CHKDSK /i
C.
CHKDSK /f
D.
CHKDSK /r
Explanation:
In order to accomplish the task, you will have to run the following commanD.
CHKDSK /r
The CHKDSK command verifies the integrity of the hard disk installed on a computer. Using the
command with different parameters can resolve a number of issues, which are described as follows:
SwitchDescription
CHKDSK /f It fixes all the errors on the hard disk of a computer.
CHKDSK /vIt displays the full path and name of every file on the disk.
CHKDSK /r It locates bad sectors and recovers readable information.
CHKDSK /l It changes the log file size to the specified number of kilobytes. If the size is not specified,
it displays the current size.
CHKDSK /i It performs a less vigorous check of index entries.
CHKDSK /c It skips checking of cycles within the folder structure.
Reference:
TechNet, Contents: “Chapter 27 – Troubleshooting Disks and File Systems”