The WMI Chkdsk action invokes the chkdsk operation on the disk via WMI. The method is applicable to only those instances of logical disk that represent a physical disk in the machine. It is not applicable to mapped logical drives.
Client - Requires Windows Vista or Windows XP.
Server - Requires Windows Server "Longhorn" or Windows Server 2003.
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Enter the name of the remote machine, or leave blank for localhost
Select the drive letter. If you want to set this dynamically, set it in the BeforeAction script event. See below.
Indicates what should be done to errors found on the disk. If true, then errors are fixed. The default is false.
If true, a vigorous check of index entries should be performed. The default is true.
If true, the folder cycle checking should be skipped. The default is true.
If true, the drive should be forced to dismount before checking. The default is false.
If true, the bad sectors should be located and the readable information should be recovered from these sectors. The default is false.
If true, the chkdsk operation should be performed at next boot up time, in case the operation could not be performed because the disk is locked at time the method is called. The default is false.
Fail if scheduled for reboot - If true and the chkdsk returns that it has scheduled to run at boot up time, then the action will fail
You can set the various properties of the action via script. For example, to set the Drive Letter via script:
BeforeAction Script Event:
Action.PropertyStore.DriveLetter = TheDriveLetter
Where "TheDriveLetter" is a variable that has been set to a valid drive on the machine, in the format <DriveLetter>:
eg. E: or C: