Dave
Wed Sep 05 12:42:55 PDT 2007
Thanks I'll give this a try tomorrow.
Dave Marden
"Al Dunbar" <AlanDrub@hotmail.com.nospaam> wrote in message
news:%23bu1z937HHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> "Dave Marden" <newsgroup@mardenfamily.com> wrote in message
> news:uk9oqLk7HHA.4660@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> At work we have several pc's that use windows 2000 professional for
>> vision systems, and for some reason when we have to shut down our
>> sub-stations invertently one of our pc's gets the bsod and upon
>> restarting the pc's say that the system file is corrupt. We have about
>> 100 pc's and it wouldn't be very possible to physically go around and
>> shut off all the pc's as this would require too much manpower and it
>> would be less expensive to just replace the pc and replace the hard drive
>> and ghost the new one for later use.
>>
>> Is it possible to write a script to scan the hard drives while the pc
>> still runs normally so we could first prevent the problem and hopefully
>> mark the bad sectors as bad as to possibly prolong the life of the
>> drives, and also to let us know that we need to put it on a schedule to
>> change out the drive. Also if shutting down the pc's in this manner,
>> (Shutting Power Off) maybe make a script that would automatically shut
>> down all the pc's.
>>
>> I have never used vbscript but I've heard that such scripting is possible
>> using it.
>
> "system file is corrupt" and "disk contains bad sectors" are two
> distinctly different conditions. Certainly a bad sector within the system
> file might result in the "corrupt" message, but the corrupt message itself
> does not mean that there are bad sectors - just that the content of the
> file is in an invalid and unrecoverable state.
>
> In our XP/w2k3 we use the remote shutdown feature of the shutdown command,
> i.e.:
>
> shutdown -s -m \\computer01 -f
> shutdown -s -m \\computer02 -f
>
> I'm not sure if this is available in w2k, but, if so, you could list all
> the targetted workstations in a file and shut each down in turn with
> something like:
>
> for /f %%C in (computerlist.txt) do shutdown -s -m %%C -f
>
> If a large number of systems is involved, this could take a while,
> especially if many of them are already powered off. To see which are on
> your batch script could check the output of the "net view" command, and
> skip the shutdown if the computer is not listed. Or you could add a delay
> after the for loop and then run the 'net view' command so the operator
> could decide if further steps need be taken before shutting down the
> power.
>
> Not a vbscript solution, of course, but possibly a simpler one.
>
> /Al
>
>