How to keep CHKDSK output for examination ?

[JeanPaulo]

I have a recurrent problem on my system(s) disk in XP, which I cannot
belive to be hardware related.

Everytime I have to do a chkdsk /f or /r, and say Y to run it at next
boot.

But I do not have the time to read what it says.

Is there a file created anywhere ?

I looked at lots of posts, but there is no clear answer.

Thanks

 

[Jose]

On Feb 3, 9:08 am, JeanPaulo <jean.paulo.bi...@free.fr> wrote:
> I have a recurrent problem on my system(s) disk in XP, which I cannot
> belive to be hardware related.
>
> Everytime I have to do a chkdsk /f or /r, and say Y to run it at next
> boot.
>
> But I do not have the time to read what it says.
>
> Is there a file created anywhere ?
>
> I looked at lots of posts, but there is no clear answer.
>
> Thanks

When chkdsk runs automatically on a reboot, the results are shown in
the Event Viewer Application
log sourced by Winlogon and looks something like this:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.

39070048 KB total disk space.
25151976 KB in 78653 files.
48256 KB in 10264 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
237080 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
13632736 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
9767512 total allocation units on disk.
3408184 allocation units available on disk.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

 

[Rey Santos]

Start > Run > Type "eventvwr.msc" (without quotes) > OK. Under Event Viewer
(left pane), click on Application, in the right pane locate the Winlogon
entry whose time corresponds roughly to the time CheckDisk finished and
rebooted your PC, double click on it you'll see the log.
--
Rey


"JeanPaulo" wrote:

> I have a recurrent problem on my system(s) disk in XP, which I cannot
> belive to be hardware related.
>
> Everytime I have to do a chkdsk /f or /r, and say Y to run it at next
> boot.
>
> But I do not have the time to read what it says.
>
> Is there a file created anywhere ?
>
> I looked at lots of posts, but there is no clear answer.
>
> Thanks
> .
>

 

[JeanPaulo]

Thanks to both. I used the event viewer, but did not know about the
'winlogon' entries. Now I see it....

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:13:01 -0800, Rey Santos
<ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Start > Run > Type "eventvwr.msc" (without quotes) > OK. Under Event Viewer
>(left pane), click on Application, in the right pane locate the Winlogon
>entry whose time corresponds roughly to the time CheckDisk finished and
>rebooted your PC, double click on it you'll see the log.