scandisk and/or defrag

marzipan · 07-11-2006, 10:50 AM

I'd like to create a job to wake up a computer, run scandisk and/or defrag, and then shut back down. Is this possible?

Nick · 07-11-2006, 10:52 AM

Wake up is the easy part.

The scandisk/defrag part can be done with a script on certain versions of Windows. I think the ability started with one of the flavors of XP.

marzipan · 07-11-2006, 11:03 AM

Thanks for responding so quickly! The computers have XP pro on them. I was thinking it would be a script. I've only made one other in the past, but I will give it a try.

jpkishere · 07-11-2006, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick

Wake up is the easy part.

The scandisk/defrag part can be done with a script on certain versions of Windows. I think the ability started with one of the flavors of XP.

With XPs defrag you can use command line options to automatically defrag (defrag /?)

With Windows 2000, do a google search for autodefrag, it is freeware that is floating around.. (if you can't find it, I can probably dig up a URL or upload the file)..

I would think for scandisk, you could do a chkdsk /? and find out what you can run on them..

jpkishere · 07-11-2006, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marzipan

Thanks for responding so quickly! The computers have XP pro on them. I was thinking it would be a script. I've only made one other in the past, but I will give it a try.

You could just do a quick batch file that was like:

chkdsk /f
defrag /f

and that would be it.. I think.. =)

carymon · 07-11-2006, 11:25 AM

and if you want to turn the machine off again add a..

shutdown -s -f -t 00

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On a side note... If you wish to batch the whole project, providing the NIC has been flashed I've had success using Free Wake-On-Lan from the command line. (It of course is far easier with Altiris though.

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http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm

Nick · 07-11-2006, 11:36 AM

Autodefrag info can be found HERE.

Here is a vbscript to defrag XP systems.

Code:

'defrag_all.vbs - Defrags all hard disks - Can be run as a Scheduled Task
'© Doug Knox - 3/29/2002

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

   Dim fso, d, dc
   Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   Set dc = fso.Drives
   For Each d in dc
      If d.DriveType = 2 Then
    Return = WshShell.Run("defrag " & d & " -f", 1, TRUE)
      End If
   Next

Set WshShell = Nothing