JoshBerke's questions

I have a laptop here running Windows Vista, and it's complaining about corrupt files. There are folders which I can't access. When I try and run chkdisk, it tells me I need to do this at the next reboot since the drive is in use. I go ahead and schedule it to run; however, when I reboot chkdisk never runs.

I have used the system file restore tool (sfc I believe), and it did find a lot of files which it replaced; however, the tool complained that not all files could be repaired, when I look at the CBS log file I see nothing but successes so I'm not sure what files wouldn't restore.

I even found a site out there which had a copy of chkdsk on it to download and try incase my chkdsk became corrupt.

Are there any other options out there? Can I boot off a usb or cd and run chkdsk?

Edit

Just out of curiosity but does anyone know what would cause the Checkdisk not to run at startup?

What are some good tools to run tests validating a Windows server Web & DB server is properly secure? Are there any tools which are comprehensive and will scan for all the popular known vulnerabilities?

When setting up security on SQL Server 2005 / 2008. What is the more secure option?

• Windows Authentication Mode Only
• Mixed Authentication

Does it matter if the server will be accessed by many desktop clients (thick clients) or if a handful of web servers will be accessing it?

Edit

And why is it more secure? Using Windows Authentication does mean we can avoid putting the connection string in the configuration file which is a plus.

Windows Authentication also allows us to control who gets access based on their NT credentials, which I would think is ideal when your clients connect directly to the server.

One thing I always wonder however, is how useful NT authentication is when all clients go through a proxy such as web service.