What is special about ScanDisk and the surcharge of 10% in Windows 9x? [new revelation] [continuous rate]

Q: Which secret goal is to forever be ScanDisk to 10% on all Windows 9x systems. Even on a system you just installed the OS, its always the magic 10% and then the rest at a constant rate. This is not a , its just that I finally thought to ask.


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Re:I'm not very familiar with fat32 but I'm guessing that 10% is where it starts reading the metadata information. It probably has to read in all of the directory and file information, then after it gets past that it starts checking actual blocks and then the bar resumes as normal.

(This may be completely wrong; I'm basing this off of fsck for ext2 and if I were programming a progress bar for it with a bug in it, that's what I think I would see)


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Re:Originally posted by: guy

Originally posted by: guy
It's a glitch in the old version of ScanDisk. In Windows XP, ScanDisk is awesome.
I occassionally use Windows ScanDisk wtih Windows XP but it doesn't report any information like if there were any errors found or how many clusters were scanned when it's done processing like it does with Windows 9x. It just says ScanDisk Complete or something. Is there a way to get it to display all of the processing information?

I'd like to know this as well.


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Re:Originally posted by: guy
It's a glitch in the old version of ScanDisk. In Windows XP, ScanDisk is awesome.
I occassionally use Windows ScanDisk wtih Windows XP but it doesn't report any information like if there were any errors found or how many clusters were scanned when it's done processing like it does with Windows 9x. It just says ScanDisk Complete or something. Is there a way to get it to display all of the processing information?

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Re:My assumption was that windows wanted certain system files within the 10% mark. I was hoping someone had heard of a reason in class or in MS training.

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Re:I gave up on the Windows scandisk for the Win9x series, and either use Norton Disk Doctor, or else just boot to DOS mode and run the commandline version of scandisk.

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Re:It's a glitch in the old version of ScanDisk. In Windows XP, ScanDisk is awesome.

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