Dear all

I recently dropped my laptop from about chair/seat height. It hit the floor on it's side. Worried I quickly did scandisk and left it. When I came back it had already booted into linux and I forgot about the issue.

Q. How does one look back at previous or recent scandisk logs?

Today when I booted my laptop I noticed the performance very sluggish and not normal. I began to worry about my harddrive issue.

The results of scandisk partition was:

44765122 KB total disk space.
26495516 KB in 3332 files.
1788 KB in 518 indexes.
4 KB in bad sectors.
94818 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
18172996 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
11191280 total allocation units on disk.
4543249 allocation units available on disk.
Windows has finished checking the disk.

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Woah! 4KB in bad sectors. I guess the 4KB is unrecoverable. I wonder what files were sitting on top of those bad sectors.

If you're really worried, just run fsck from linux.

To find out the syntax use man fsck from console.

Its easier to do this from a rescue cd as you need the mount points unmounted.

Do you know how to review previous fsck logs/results?

Im not that experienced with it, since my system only reboots maybe 4 or 5 times a year, and ive not had any disk problems for years (touch wood).

Try googling for fsck.

I doubt it created a log. However you are looking for log files "/var/log" is a good place to start.