Special Edition Using Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0

Using ScanDisk to Check for Disk Damage

In an ideal world, you would never have to worry about errors occurring on your hard disk or floppy disks. This not being the case, Windows 95 comes with a program called ScanDisk you can use to check for, diagnose, and repair damage on a hard disk or floppy disk. Part of your routine hard disk maintenance, along with defragmenting your hard disk as described in the next section, should be to periodically run ScanDisk to keep your hard disk in good repair.

In its standard test, ScanDisk checks the files and folders on a disk for logical errors; if you ask it to, ScanDisk also automatically corrects any errors it finds. ScanDisk checks for cross-linked files, which occur when two or more files have data ...