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Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters

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Rob wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Rob wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Yousuf Khan wrote
>>>>> AndyHancock wrote

>>>>>> Partitions 1,3,4 do not have letter drives.  So I was wondering
>>>>>> whether I can still use chkdsk (and if I can do that for all the
>>>>>> partitions at once, so much the better).  I've surfed and found
>>>>>> info on assigning letters to the partitions, but that option is
>>>>>> grayed out in Disk Management.  I am also concerned about
>>>>>> possible side effects of assigning letters on the intended
>>>>>> functions of those drives.  Disk management, partitions,
>>>>>> volumes, file systems -- stuff I never really knew about before
>>>>>> having to clone (motivated by a boot failure scare).

>>>>> Looks like we had the same issues recently. I bought a new Toshiba
>>>>> laptop too. What I did was changed the Type 17 partitions to Type
>>>>> 07, and then rebooted. They were automatically added with their own drive letters after the reboot. I don't see 
>>>>> any reason why just
>>>>> mounting them with drive letters is going to corrupt them in any way.

>>>>> I imaged both partitions, and then blew them away. I also used the
>>>>> Toshiba imaging utility to create recovery disks before blowing them away. They took about 3 DL-DVD's or 5 
>>>>> SL-DVD's.

>>>> Fark. Wonder why its so big when Win7 isnt ?

>>> Cause it has all the other extras that come with the computer.

>> Dont believe that.

>>> W7 32 and 64,

>> They are both there with say W7 Ultimate, just one DVD.

>>> MS Office Nortons Games etc etc.

>> Those dont add as much as that.

>>> I think it was 14 Gb of extras on the partition when I took the HDD
>>> out and read it from a docking station.

>> I find that very hard to believe.

>>> Yes when I made the restore took 5 DVD's.

>> I'm not saying it doesnt, just wonder why its 5 times what W7 itself takes.

> Sorry its on a 14Gb partition which has the backup files.

> 6.1Gb  20,000files 3700 folders

> That better!

Yeah, that makes much more sense.

But you now have a problem with why it takes 5 DVDs.

Even a very crude sector by sector copy of the whole 14GB wont take 5 SL DVDs. 

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chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 10:59 -0800
  Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2012-02-12 06:46 +1100
  Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 07:15 +1100
    Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 13:00 -0800
      Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 08:53 +1100
        Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 21:54 -0800
          Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 19:31 +1100
            Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 07:04 -0800
  Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-11 19:02 -0500
    Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 13:21 +1100
      Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 22:05 -0800
        Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 19:39 +1100
          Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 19:24 -0800
            Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 19:37 -0800
            Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 19:52 +1100
              Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 22:20 -0800
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 22:31 -0800
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 02:40 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-14 20:51 -0800
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 16:12 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 02:36 +1100
      Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Rob <mesamine@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 03:15 +1100
        Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 07:43 +1100
          Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Rob <mesamine@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 14:29 +1100
            Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 16:05 +1100
              Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-16 12:40 -0500
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 07:59 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Rob <mesamine@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 08:55 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 09:41 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Rob <mesamine@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 10:14 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 11:20 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters Rob <mesamine@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 23:37 +1100
                Re: chkdsk all partitions at once, including those without drive letters "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-18 01:02 +1100

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