We have built our machines with a 'hidden' partition (FAT32, No drive
letter), which we backup to each weekend (using Norton Ghost).

Ghost is reporting some read sector errors on this partition and I
would like to run Chkdsk, but cannot find anyway to specify checks on
partitions without a drive letter.

Does Chkdsk have the capability to identify a partition with some other
identifier?

Many thanks in advance

James.

"James.Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> We have built our machines with a 'hidden' partition (FAT32, No drive
> letter), which we backup to each weekend (using Norton Ghost).
>
> Ghost is reporting some read sector errors on this partition and I
> would like to run Chkdsk, but cannot find anyway to specify checks on
> partitions without a drive letter.
>
> Does Chkdsk have the capability to identify a partition with some other
> identifier?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> James.
>

Any reason why you can't assign a drive letter via disk management, run
chkdsk and then de-assign the drive letter?

Mark Weinreb wrote:
> [...]
> Any reason why you can't assign a drive letter via disk management, run
> chkdsk and then de-assign the drive letter?

Thanks for the reply. For some reason, even when running disk
management as an admin, I have only the "Delete Partition" and "Help"
options - the change drive letter option is ghosted. This applies to
all machines in our firm.

The status shows as "Healthy (Unknown Parition)".

James.Brown wrote:
> Mark Weinreb wrote:
>> [...]
>> Any reason why you can't assign a drive letter via disk management,
>> run chkdsk and then de-assign the drive letter?
>
> Thanks for the reply. For some reason, even when running disk
> management as an admin, I have only the "Delete Partition" and "Help"
> options - the change drive letter option is ghosted. This applies to
> all machines in our firm.
>
> The status shows as "Healthy (Unknown Parition)".

Somehow, the partition has been set to be unchangeable drive letter wise.
All I recall is that it can be done, not how to undo it :-( . If you have
the ability, I'd start by checking into the group policies.

Pop`

Poprivet wrote:

> Somehow, the partition has been set to be unchangeable drive letter wise.
> All I recall is that it can be done, not how to undo it :-( . If you have
> the ability, I'd start by checking into the group policies.
>
> Pop`

Thanks for the suggestion, but are you sure that drive letters can be
locked by group policies? I couldn't see anything from a quick browse
through the RSOP.

James.