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Q126280: Windows 95 ScanDisk (SCANDSKW) Exit Codes

Article: Q126280
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
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Last Modified: 17-DEC-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows 95 
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SUMMARY
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This article lists the exit codes that an IF ERRORLEVEL statement can detect
after you run ScanDisk.

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ScanDisk can return the following exit codes:

  0x00 - Drive(s) checked, no errors found
  0x01 - Errors found, all fixed
  0xFA - Check couldn't start, couldn't find or load DSKMAINT.DLL
  0xFB - Check couldn't start, insufficient memory
  0xFC - Errors found, at least some not fixed
  0xFD - At least one drive could not be checked
  0xFE - Check was canceled
  0xFF - Check was terminated due to an error

Note that there is no distinction between codes 0x00 and 0x01 (or between 0x00
and 0xFC when ScanDisk is run in Preview mode) on removable media (such as a
floppy disk).

Additional query words: errorlevels error levels

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Technology        : kbWin95search kbZNotKeyword3

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