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User’s Guide 21
Repair and Recover
• Report Errors Only–If you are a more advanced PC user, you may want to
see a report showing any errors on a disk before you decide what to do to
resolve these errors. You can easily get a detailed report about the state of
a disk using the Report Errors Only option in the Disk Minder Properties
sheet. When you select this option and click Start, Disk Minder verifies the
information on your disk, and produces a summary and detail report. It
does not make any changes to the disk. You can print the detail report of
the test results on your printer or save it as a text file. This gives you the
facts you need to decide whether and how to fix disk problems.
• Fix Errors Interactively–If you deselect the Fix Errors Automatically Using
Default Values check box in the Disk Minder window, Disk Minder runs
an interactive disk repair process by displaying a message about any errors
it finds. Disk Minder lets you decide whether to fix each error or not, and
how to fix the error. Each message describes the error situation and offers
a suggested solution (the default choices in the message).
No matter which disk repair method you use, you can specify Disk Minder
properties to specify the kinds of data it checks, whether Disk Minder
performs read/write tests to verify the integrity of the disk surface, and if so,
how many times it repeats the read/write tests.
Creating and Reverting to an Undo File
If Disk Minder finds a problem, it asks if you want to create an Undo file before
making any changes to the disk.
To create an Undo file, click Yes and pick a destination for the Undo file.
To revert to an Undo file, click Undo in the Disk Minder window. Select the
drive with an Undo file you want to use. Then click OK.
Using Disk Minder to Auto Fix Errors
Using Disk Minder for Windows to automatically fix errors is very easy. Just
start Disk Minder, select the disk drives to check, select whether you want to
check the disk surface for read errors, select the Fix Errors Automatically
Using Default Values check box, and click the Start button. Until the process is
complete, you can walk away from your PC because no further interaction
from you is required.
Using Disk Minder to Report Errors Only
Before interactively fixing errors, you can run Disk Minder with the Report
Errors Only option selected to examine or print reports describing a disk’s
problems.