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

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AndyHancock wrote:

> Toshiba computers come with 4 partitions.  I've looked
> up the partition characteristics using the following:
> - Disk Management
> - PowerQuest Partition Table Editor
> - Partition Type codes at
>   http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

> The partitions are:

> 1. Type: 0x27 (Windows Recover Environment hidden partition)
>   Size: 1.46 GiB
>   Disk Management labels: Healthy (Active, Recover partition)

> 2. Type: 0x07 NTFS
>   Size: Hundreds of GiB
>   Disk Management labels:
>      Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

> 3. Type: 0x17 (Hidden Internal File System
>   Size: 22.37 GiB
>   Disk Management labels: Healthy (Primary Partition)

> 4. Type: 0x17 (Hidden Internal File System
>   Size: 12.83 GiB
>   Disk Management labels: Healthy (Primary Partition)

> I also have a paltry 1.x GiB of unallocated space after partition 4.

> Partitions 2,3,4 are of types 0x07 and 0x17, which are well described
> at http://fixunix.com/help/9334-what-hidden-ifs-e-g-hpfs-0x17.html .
> Both are Internal File systems (IFSs), but 0x07 is unhidden while 0x17
> is hidden.  IFSs seem to be OS dependent:
> - HPFS (OS/2)
> - NTFS (Windows)
> - Advanced unix or QUNX2.X(pre-1988)

> From exchanges here and elsewhere, the feeling is that partition 1 is
> boot & SRP, while partitions 3 & 4 are for creating recovery discs
> (which don't come with the laptop), for disc-less recovery in case you
> don't have (or have access to) recovery discs, and for other-language
> versions of recovery.  Partition 2 is simply C-drive, and contains the
> OS.  When Ghosting, I use SRP switches for partition 1, and the clone
> satisfies the tests of booting properly, creating recovery discs, and
> doing disc-less recovery.

> Partitions 1,3,4 do not have letter drives.  So
> I was wondering whether I can still use chkdsk

I wouldnt, even if you change the partition type so Win will give it a letter.

Too much risk of chkdsk stuffing up the partition if it sees something it doesnt like.

> (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.

Because of the partition type.

> I am also concerned about possible side effects of
> assigning letters on the intended functions of those drives.

Yeah, could be dangerous if chkdsk gets to run auto on it.

> Disk management, partitions, volumes, file systems -- stuff I never really
> knew about before having to clone (motivated by a boot failure scare).

Yeah, it can be quite complicated. 

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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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