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# MS-DOS 6.2 SCANDISK.INI File

Article ID: 105559

Article Last Modified on 10/14/2003

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q105559

## SUMMARY

This article contains a complete listing of the MS-DOS 6.2 SCANDISK.INI file.

## MORE INFORMATION

    ; SCANDISK.INI
    ;
    ; This file contains settings you can use to customize the ScanDisk
    ; program.

    ; -------------------------------------------------------------------
    ; The [ENVIRONMENT] section contains the following settings, which
    ; determine general aspects of ScanDisk's behavior:
    ;
    ; Display      Configures ScanDisk to run with a particular type of
    ;              display. The default display type is Auto (ScanDisk
    ;              adjusts to the current display).
    ;
    ; Mouse        Enables or disables mouse support. The default value is
    ;              On.
    ;
    ; ScanTimeOut  Determines whether ScanDisk should detect disk timeouts
    ;              while performing a surface scan. The default value is Off.
    ;
    ; NumPasses    Determines how many times ScanDisk should check each
    ;              cluster during a surface scan. The default value is 1.
    ;
    ; LabelCheck   Determines whether ScanDisk should check volume labels
    ;              for invalid characters.  The default is Off.

    [ENVIRONMENT]
       Display     = Auto   ; Auto, Mono, Color, Off
       Mouse       = On     ; On, Off
       ScanTimeOut = Off    ; On, Off
       NumPasses   = 1      ; 1 through 65,535 (anything over 10 is slow)
       LabelCheck  = Off    ; On, Off

    ; -------------------------------------------------------------------
    ; The [CUSTOM] section determines ScanDisk's behavior when ScanDisk is
    ; started with the /CUSTOM switch. You can adjust these settings to
    ; create a customized "version" of ScanDisk. This can be especially
    ; useful for running ScanDisk from a batch file. The [CUSTOM] settings
    ; are:
    ;
    ; DriveSummary  Determines whether ScanDisk displays full-screen
    ;               summary information after checking each drive.
    ;               The default is Auto (ScanDisk displays the summary
    ;               only if it encounters errors on that drive).
    ;
    ; AllSummary    Determines whether ScanDisk displays full-screen
    ;               summary information after checking all drives.
    ;               The default is Auto (ScanDisk displays the summary
    ;               only if it encounters errors on any drive).
    ;
    ; Surface       Determines whether ScanDisk will perform a surface scan:
    ;                  Never    (Default) Does not perform a surface scan.
    ;                  Always   Performs a surface scan without prompting
    ;                           first.
    ;                  Prompt   Prompts before performing a surface scan.
    ;               The /SURFACE command-line switch overrides this setting.
    ;
    ; CheckHost     Determines whether ScanDisk will first check a host drive
    ;               before checking any compressed drives located on that
    ;               drive.
    ;                  Never    (Default) Does not check the host drive.
    ;                  Always   Checks the host drive without prompting
    ;                           first.
    ;                  Prompt   Prompts before checking the host drive.
    ;
    ; SaveLog       Determines what ScanDisk does with the repair log file:
    ;                  Off        (Default) Does not save the repair log.
    ;                  Append     Appends the log to the previous log, if
    ;                             any.
    ;                  Overwrite  Replaces the previous log with the new log.
    ;
    ; Undo          Determines whether ScanDisk creates an Undo floppy disk.
    ;               The default is Never (ScanDisk does not create an Undo
    ;               disk). The Prompt value causes ScanDisk to prompt you for
    ;               a disk.

    [CUSTOM]
       DriveSummary  = Auto         ; Auto, On, Off
       AllSummary    = Auto         ; Auto, On, Off
       Surface       = Never        ; Never, Always, Prompt
       CheckHost     = Never        ; Never, Always, Prompt
       SaveLog       = Off          ; Off, Append, Overwrite
       Undo          = Prompt       ; Prompt, Never

    ; The following settings determine the corrective action ScanDisk will
    ; take if it was started with the /CUSTOM switch and finds a disk error.

    ; The next five settings accept any of the following values:
    ;    Prompt     Causes ScanDisk to prompt you before fixing this problem.
    ;    Fix        Causes ScanDisk to fix the problem without prompting you.
    ;    Quit       Causes ScanDisk to terminate if it encounters this
    ;               problem.

       DS_Header     = Prompt       ; Damaged DoubleSpace volume file header
       FAT_Media     = Prompt       ; Missing or invalid FAT media byte
       Okay_Entries  = Prompt       ; Damaged, but repairable,
                                    ; directories/files
       Bad_Chain     = Prompt       ; Files or directories which should be
                                    ; truncated
       Crosslinks    = Prompt       ; FAT-level crosslinks

    ; The next seven settings accept any of the following values:
    ;    Prompt     Causes ScanDisk to prompt you before fixing this problem.
    ;    Fix        Causes ScanDisk to fix the problem without prompting you.
    ;    Quit       Causes ScanDisk to terminate if it encounters this
    ;               problem.
    ;    Skip       Causes ScanDisk to skip fixing this problem, but continue
    ;               checking the disk.

       Boot_Sector   = Prompt       ; Damaged boot sector on DoubleSpace
                                    ; drive
       Invalid_MDFAT = Prompt       ; Invalid MDFAT entries
       DS_Crosslinks = Prompt       ; Internal (MDFAT-level) crosslinks
       DS_LostClust  = Prompt       ; Internal lost clusters
       DS_Signatures = Prompt       ; Missing DoubleSpace volume signatures
       Mismatch_FAT  = Prompt       ; Mismatched FATs on non-DoubleSpace
                                    ; drives
       Bad_Clusters  = Prompt       ; Physical damage or decompression errors

    ; The next setting accepts any of the following values:
    ;
    ;    Prompt     Causes ScanDisk to prompt you before fixing this problem.
    ;    Delete     Causes ScanDisk to delete the damaged directory entries
    ;               without prompting you first.
    ;    Quit       Causes ScanDisk to terminate if it encounters this
    ;               problem.

       Bad_Entries   = Prompt       ; Damaged and irrepairable directories or
                                    ; files

    ; The next setting accepts any of the following values:
    ;
    ;    Prompt     Causes ScanDisk to prompt you before fixing this problem.
    ;    Save       Causes ScanDisk to save the lost clusters as files in the
    ;               root directory without prompting you first.
    ;    Delete     Causes ScanDisk to delete the contents of the lost
    ;               clusters
    ;               without prompting you first.
    ;    Quit       Causes ScanDisk to terminate if it encounters this
    ;               problem.
    ;    Skip       Causes ScanDisk to skip fixing this problem, but continue
    ;               checking the disk.

       LostClust     = Prompt       ; Lost clusters

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