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

>>>>>>>>> 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.

>>>>>>> It's actually 4 data DVD's, plus one DVD that contains the
>>>>>>> Windows recovery environment.

>>>>>> The maths still dont add up.

>>>>>> That can only account for 3 SL DVDs at most and the Win7 distribution does it fine in a single DVD.

>>>>>> Add another for the extra crap like Office and Nortons etc and
>>>>>> it still doesnt add up.

>>>>> I tried to install Office off the files but it will not work. So
>>>>> I assume that there must be an installer somewhere within those
>>>>> files and folders.

>>>>> When I had problems with the windows install and used the backup
>>>>> on the HDD it took 2.5hrs to delete the files

>>>> Sounds like a complete abortion to take so long to do something as
>>>> basic as that.

>>>>> then another 1.5hrs to install the system up again

>>>> Even odder that it takes twice as long to delete as to install.

>>>>> and in doing so installed all the extras again which were on the
>>>>> backup. No options.

>>>> Yeah, thats not that unusual. You often only get the option of 32
>>>> or 64 bit versions.

>>> On the first install it gave the option of 32 or 64 somehow I messed
>>> up the install of 64 which had started.  On a reboot it went straight into completing the first install. But this 
>>> ended up as 32 bit, think it must have defaulted into 32.

>> Sounds very plausible/likely.

>>> Now when you work off the B/Up partition starting with the prompts,
>>> and selecting x64, you remove all files off C:  this tells you it
>>> will take 2.5hrs to complete which is exactly what it took, no fast
>>> tracking etc.

>> Biuzarre that it takes that long to do something that basic.

>> It certainly doesnt when you use the standard Win7 Ultimate
>> and change between 32 bit and 64 bit versions and I know
>> that because I did that a number of times when working out
>> whether a few of the quirks I did see when moving to Win7
>> were due to the 64 bit version or not.

>>> After that it proceeds to install the system etc again this tells
>>> you the exact time to complete the installation.

>> None of the Win7 installs from the official MS Win7
>> Ultimate DVD take anything like that long either even
>> when you include the time to install Office and Nortons etc.

> I haven't seen that either when installing W7 Ult.  The Toshiba came
> with Pro x32 and x64. It a Toshiba setup screen not the regular W7.

Yeah, I realise that. I was JUST commenting that for some reason
those ops are MUCH slower than with an official MS W7 Ultimate DVD.

>>> I didn't try to manually remove the files off C: because I didn't want to loose the BUp partition - you can't see 
>>> that partition under normal circumstances (nor can I understand the file system)

>>> Good learning curve. :)

>> Yeah, its certainly that sort of thing that gets a better
>> understanding of the basics.

>> The other obvious question tho is why you lot dont just shrink the bootable C drive installed partition and use the 
>> free space you have created that way for the Linux partition you want to add to the Toshiba config. 

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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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