How to run chkdsk on drive without command prompt in c#

Question

I searched on internet and found many possible ways of running chkdsk utility in c# using cmd.exe as file name and passing command as /c chkdsk drive_letter:/f /x

But I want to run chkdsk utility on drive ,without involvement of cmd.exe ie; Purely using internal features of c#.

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Chkdsk is a console application. So how do you wanna start a console application without the console? The only thing you can do is hiding the window from the user.

As you for sure already noticed: MSDN - Chkdsk
According the console-window:

startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

This together should bring you to your goal.