$ Verify - A collection of potential, unconfirmed incidents in a drive. initiate Start NTFS self-recovery. Specify the specific NTFS drive file ID (file reference number). File reference includes the file segment number. query Querying the self-recovery state of NTFS drives. set Set the drive's self-recovery state. Specify the error correction method to be used when installing the drive's self-recovery state.
Flags parameters can be set to three values:
- 0x01 : Allows common error correction.
- 0x09 : Warning about the possibility of data loss without repair.
- 0x00 : Disable NTFS self-repair repair operations. state Query the problem state of the system or for a certain drive. wait Wait for the repair process to complete. If NTFS has detected a problem on the drive that it is working on, this option allows the system to wait until the repair process is complete, before running any pending script. [WaitType {0 | 1}] Indicates that the user must wait for the current repair or wait for all repairs to be completed. WaitType can be set to the following values:
- 0 : Waiting for all completed repair processes. (Default value)
- 1 : Waiting for the current repair process to complete.
The NTFS self-recovery feature tries to fix the corrupted errors of the online NTFS file system without requiring Chkdsk.exe to run. This feature was introduced in Windows Server 2008.
To list confirmed issues of a drive, enter:
fsutil repair enumerate C: $Corrupt
To enable self-repair on drive C, enter:
fsutil repair set c: 1
To turn off the self-recovery repair feature on drive C, enter:
fsutil repair set c: 0
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