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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
>>>>> 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 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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