Chkdsk on hidden partition

[James.Brown]

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.

 

[Mark Weinreb]

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?

 

[James.Brown]

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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)".

 

[Poprivet]

[...]
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`

 

[James.Brown]

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.