Does anyone know what the secret command line switch that Windows Explorer uses to run CHKDSK so that it performs a read-only surface scan for any drive, including the Windows drive (see the first image below)?
I've been to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730714.aspx and been through all the options and it is not listed there.
If you use the /r switch, it forces on the /f switch: "Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information. The disk must be locked./r includes the functionality of /f, with the additional analysis of physical disk errors."
Does anyone know how Windows Explorer calls CHKDSK so that it runs a surface scan in read-only mode?
Please advise.