Why is Chkdsk less reliable than Scandisk?

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If you have a Western Digital, they have a free utility you can check the
disk with, and you can download it..
"Borgholio" <borgholio@storymind.com> wrote in message
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> Chkdsk for Windows XP works fine for me under most circumstances. The
only
> problem I have with it is when I'm trying to locate bad sectors on a disk.
> If I use Windows XP's chkdsk on a floppy disk that I know to be bad, it
will
> often say that the disk contains no errors. If I put that same disk into
a
> machine running Windows 98 and use Scandisk, it will usually find errors
> that XP missed. Why does XP have a disk-scanning utility that is far less
> thorough than it's predecessor? I find that Scandisk's surface scan is
way
> more reliable than Chkdsk.

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Sandman wrote:
> If you have a Western Digital, they have a free utility you can check the
> disk with, and you can download it..
> "Borgholio" <borgholio@storymind.com> wrote in message
> news:uOTSWasuEHA.1288@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
>>Chkdsk for Windows XP works fine for me under most circumstances. The
>
> only
>
>>problem I have with it is when I'm trying to locate bad sectors on a disk.
>>If I use Windows XP's chkdsk on a floppy disk that I know to be bad, it
>
> will
>
>>often say that the disk contains no errors. If I put that same disk into
>
> a
>
>>machine running Windows 98 and use Scandisk, it will usually find errors
>>that XP missed. Why does XP have a disk-scanning utility that is far less
>>thorough than it's predecessor? I find that Scandisk's surface scan is
>
> way
>
>>more reliable than Chkdsk.
>
>
>


Yeah actually I have their program, and it works quite well. But I'm
interested in checking all drives...not just WD. I'm also interested in
checking my vast library of 3.5" floppy disks.

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