Hi,

I've got a dual CPU machine, however I can't seem to run more than one Disk
check at a time on my external USB drives (even thought they're attached to
different controllers)... why is that ?

Because.

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"Steve" <news_svaardt@hotmail_NOSPAM_.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've got a dual CPU machine, however I can't seem to run more than one
> Disk check at a time on my external USB drives (even thought they're
> attached to different controllers)... why is that ?
>
>
>

Steve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a dual CPU machine, however I can't seem to run more than one Disk
> check at a time on my external USB drives (even thought they're attached to
> different controllers)... why is that ?
>
>
>


Because that's the way Chkdsk is designed to work.

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Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:19:33 +0900 from Steve
<news_svaardt@hotmail_NOSPAM_.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a dual CPU machine, however I can't seem to run more than one Disk
> check at a time on my external USB drives (even thought they're attached to
> different controllers)... why is that ?

You can run them sequentially from the command line:

for %x in (c d e f g h) do chkdsk %x:

Or (untested) create a shortcut to run that command.

It's not exactly what you asked, but it at least leaves you free to
do other things.

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