Harriet, I don't know the number of steps, but I can say that it is not 
usually necessary to perform these frequently, unless, say, you are having 
problems that you suspect are disk related  or your disk is almost full, so 
you need a frequent defrag.

When you do the things, generally you set them in motion and go away, coming 
back hours later or in the morning.

HTH

Dean


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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Scan Disk, Chk Disk and Defrag


Well.. I just changed it  Rick, cause I wanted to see if it did the 5.  But
if you think it's not  necessary for the 5 phases, then I can certainly 
handle
the 3.  I asked my  daughter when she was here this week end if her's ran
through 3 or 5 and she  said 5.  And her computer is newer than mine, I 
believe.
I only  wanted to make sure, should I have any errors that it took care of
them  all.  Also, I asked this other friend of mine, and she runs through  5 
as
well.  But since I have changed mine back to 5 phases, how do I  change it 
back
to 3.  I really hated that it takes that long to run through  it, but 
neither
do I want it to over look some errors either.  Thanks so  much for all this
information.  I do appreciate it..   Harriet

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From: <CSThomas

Wait for other answers, but I think three stages  are "pretty normal".
It might do more if it finds a problem, and if you have  seen more stages
before on this same machine, it might be cause to  investigate that further.

Rick Glazier

>I  have a Dell Windows XP SP2, and  when I go to do a Scan Disk, it goes
fine,
> I  also check mark the  Chk Disk to do it's job when the computer is
> restarted.  I  also do the Defrag as well.  The problem I'm having is 
> when
all of  the
> above is done and I restart my computer to do the Chk Disk,   there are
> supposed to be 5 phases it runs through to do it's job, but  for some
reason, it only
> goes through 3 of them.
>
> I even tried it in Safe  Mode, and it will only go through three  of them.
Wh
> at could be  wrong?  I have no spy ware,  viruses or anything like  that.
> This has been going on  now for the past 2 months and  nothing has 
> changed.

>  Harriet

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