The Thursday 2004-10-14 at 08:54 -0500, Steve Kratz wrote:
Notice that testing a HD inside windows is asking for trouble...
How's that any different, from just running Windows? ;-)
:) Sounds like the Linux equiv. of running fsck on a mounted drive...
Right. The problem is that windows can not umount a disk, nor can it deny access to the disk (I wonder why?) - so the only way is to request the user from refrain using the disk, and detect if there is an access and stopping or pausing the process - meaning that things like the wallpaper launching stops scandisk. I was referring to that kind of problems. But testing the HD at a lower level (as needed in this case) is even more difficult, so they do it booting plain dos. I heard of a maker doing it with a small linux, but I have not seen it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson