Hacking Chkdisk.exe for Windows

[sirdashadow]

I've been lurking the forums for many years and I have seen people formatting their SD Cards over and over everytime they have corruption. That could lead to a premature death of the flash card depending on the way you format it. I used to go to the command line and do a chkdsk on the drive of the memory card to fix it, but I know a lot of people are scared of the command line.

So I found a little program I've been using for a while called checkDisk.exe that is just a GUI for windows to the command line. It is not a front-end...it will actually invoke the Windows routines to check the disk. Hope this helps some people out there.

Moderators feel free to sticky/move the post if you want to whenever you think it could be most useful. I can't attach files because I just registered...



http://www.paehl.de/checkdisk.zip

 

[Costello]

Seeing you're a new member here, I didn't think posting a link to a program (.exe) was very appropriate.
This could easily have raised suspicion, I'm sure you understand why.

However I just checked out the program you're linking to and I just wanted to confirm that it is a legit, working program (not a virus/malware).
Just saying, in case other people would have doubts about it.

Thanks for the tip, sirdshadow.

 

[sirdashadow]

Thanks Costello, I figured it would be better if you guys check it out for the reasons that you mentioned. The sad thing is that when I tried to do a google search on the program, another "checkdisk.exe" came up that masquerades as a trojan

But I've been using the program for at least a year, long before I got an R4DS and it works very well...

In any case here is the author's download page with all of his programs http://www.paehl.de/english.php . There is some interesting stuff there as well.

 

[matriculated]

Couldn't you just right click on the memory card and press the Check for Disk Errors button?

 

[mrgone]

Couldn't you just right click on the memory card and press the Check for Disk Errors button?

that opens scandisk, microsofts windows version of chkdsk combined with a GUI

 

[FAST6191]

There is also a DS port of the linux variant:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14127
Mirror on GBATemp:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=1484
And my site:
http://www.4shared.com/file/24377444/2afb9edd/dosfsck.html

Edit: it seems to only work if you have a ram pack of some form, presumably one supported by Licks library/DSlinux.

 

[DanTheManMS]

You can also use MCTool v0.16 as an alternate DS-side CHKDSK utility in addition to the DSLinux one FAST6191 posted.