NTFSCHK

In the eventuality that you are Windows NT and have been experimenting with Windows 2000, then there is a good chance that you set up a dual-boot environment. If you did, then you experienced the annoyance of having Windows 2000 upgrading your NTFS drives to NTFS version 5 automatically and without warning  Once that happens you are no longer able to run CHKDSK on those drives from NT 4, which forces you to boot into Windows 2000 to check your drives.

Using the same technology behind NTFSDOS Professional and NTFS for Windows 98, the developer made it possible for you to run the Windows 2000 version of CHKDSK within our run-time environment under NT 4 thanks to a tiny tool dubbed NTFSCHK.

The utility can also come in handy if you removed Windows 2000 from your system or if for some reason your Windows 2000 installation is not accessible when you are in NT 4. In either of cases, you can run the utility to make the required files available to it. You can get started by creating a directory while under NT 4 with a subdirectory named "system32" e.g. "c:win2ksystem32". Then copy the following files from a Windows 2000 CD-ROM or the winntsystem32 directory of a Windows 2000 installation to the system32 directory you created: