Scan Disk is the Windows tool that scans a hard drive for errors and bad sectors. The software is not really comfortable to use, it is for instance not possible to make the tool scan all hard drives at once. Check Disk is a Scan Disk replacement that offers a more comfortable way of checking your hard drives for errors.
First and foremost it lets the user select more than one hard drive at once which means that it is possible to scan all hard drives in one go. It supports standard, full and dirty scans, displays more information in a status window and has the option to correct errors if possible.
I do not think that it scans the hard drives faster or discovers errors that Scan Disk was not able to find. That does look pretty similar to me which means the real benefit is the comfort that is added to scanning your hard drives for errors.
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Do you already try it “in field”?
Can it scan without system reboot?
It can scan without reboot but can’t repair while drive c: is in use.
From the looks of it, it just runs chkdsk. However, the only plus point is the ability to scan multiple drives at the same time.
each app has a download option– “spa1″, do you know what this is, martin?
I faintly remember that “Scandisk” was last seen with Windows ME