The Vista check disk log can be found as follows: Go to Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, Event Viewer, Windows Logs, Application. Scroll down
the Application Events looking for Wininit in the Source Column. You can also
use Find in the right column to help locate each Wininit entry. Open Wininit
and there it is. Here is one of my Wininit logs:
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.
207168 file records processed. 96
large file records processed. 0 bad file
records processed. 0 EA records processed.
44 reparse records processed.
256944 index entries processed.
0 unindexed files processed. 207168
security descriptors processed. Cleaning up 26
unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 26 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 26 unused security descriptors.
24889 data files processed. CHKDSK is
verifying Usn Journal...
35062672 USN bytes processed. Usn
Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
207152 files processed. File data
verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
7032339 free clusters processed. Free
space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
70353888 KB total disk space.
41824856 KB in 152426 files.
85108 KB in 24890 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
314568 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
28129356 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
17588472 total allocation units on disk.
7032339 allocation units available on disk.
Internal Info:
40 29 03 00 af b4 02 00 99 a6 04 00 00 00 00 00 @)..............
88 00 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....,...........
e0 64 e3 76 00 00 00 00 50 23 9f ff 00 00 00 00 .d.v....P#......
Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
"t-4-2" wrote:
>
> Nitro;780481 Wrote:
> > t-4-2 wrote:> > >
> > > > Nitro;780056 Wrote:> > > > >
> > > > >> 'Beginners Guides: Diagnosing Bad Hard Drives - PCSTATS.com'
> > > > >> ('Beginners Guides: Diagnosing Bad Hard Drives - PCSTATS.com'
> > > > (http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1583&page=5)) says:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> "Once you have restarted and CHKDSK has carried out the surface
> > > > scan,
> > > > >> Windows will boot normally. For a log of the results, right-click
> > > > 'my
> > > > >> computer' and select 'manage,' then open up 'event
> > > > >> viewer\applications'.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> "Look for the most recent event from the 'winlogon' source and
> > > > double
> > > > >> click it to open the log. All the details about the operation CHKDSK
> > > > >> just performed, including any bad sectors found, will be in here. "
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> winlogon is empty. So are:
> > > > >> DiskDiagnostic
> > > > >> DiskDiagnosticDataCollector
> > > > >> DiskDiagnosticResolver
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Where do I find the CHKDSK results?> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Control Panel> classic view> Admin Tools> Event Viewer>(prompt)>
> > > left
> > > > panel, click the pointer in front of Windows Logs> under Windows
> > > Logs,
> > > > click Application> middle column, scroll till you find either
> > > Chkdsk, or
> > > > Wininit, > >
> >
> > Everything in your post is correct up to this point.
> > > > >
> > > > click it> right column,under chkdsk, or event 1001, click Event
> > > > properties. There is your log of chkdsk results.
> > > > Please reply whether it works or not. > >
> >
> > Clicking Application brings up a window with four panes.
> > The left pane is the Event Viewer tree.
> > The right pane is headed "Actions".
> >
> > In the middle are two panes stacked vertically.
> > The top pane has five columns. I scrolled down until I found Wininit
> > under the third column (Source). The fourth column (Event Id) showed
> > 1001 in this row.
> > The lower pane shows the details of the event selected in the upper
> > pane.
> >
> > Clicking on the row in the upper pane, or clicking on "Event
> > Properties"
> > in the right pane under "Event 1001, Wininit" brings up a pop-up
> > window
> > with the details of the event. This is better formatted than the
> > details
> > in the lower pane,
> >
> > Your description was very helpful. I've been seeking this info for
> > weeks. Thank you very much.
> You are welcome. Glad to be of help.
>
>
> --
> t-4-2
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