Command Prompt command

[Sue Michele]

For the life of me I can't remember how to display ALL of
the drives and their sizes from a DOS prompt (including a
Linux drive, which doesn't show up in Windows). Anyone
know?

I want to see how big the Linux drive is in preparation
for a reformat and unpartitioning to make the XP drive
larger.

Thanks,

Sue Michele

 

[Plato]

For the life of me I can't remember how to display ALL of
the drives and their sizes from a DOS prompt (including a
Linux drive, which doesn't show up in Windows). Anyone
know?

fdisk /status

I dont recall tho how that report a NTFS partition.

 

[Sue Michele]

-----Original Message-----


fdisk /status

I dont recall tho how that report a NTFS partition.

Nope, that's not working. :-(

How else can I do this? I want to find out exactly how
big the whole drive is.

 

[Keith Miller]

Look up "diskpart" in help & support

keith

Nope, that's not working. :-(

How else can I do this? I want to find out exactly how
big the whole drive is.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

For the life of me I can't remember how to display ALL of
the drives and their sizes from a DOS prompt (including a
Linux drive, which doesn't show up in Windows). Anyone
know?

I want to see how big the Linux drive is in preparation
for a reformat and unpartitioning to make the XP drive
larger.

Hi

Put this vbscript in a .vbs file and see if it is what you want:


'--------------------8<----------------------
strComputer = "." ' use "." for local computer
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer _
& "\root\cimv2")
Set colDiskDrives = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive")

For Each objDiskDrive In colDiskDrives
Wscript.Echo "Size (GB): " & FormatNumber(objDiskDrive.Size/1024/1024/1024)
Next
'--------------------8<----------------------


Win32_DiskDrive
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_diskdrive.asp

Enumerate Physical Disk Properties
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/dfs/scrdfs21.mspx

 

[Plato]

Nope, that's not working. :-(

Seriously? Are you sure you booted to dos? You need a dos bootdisk to do
so if you have XP but I assumed you knew what dos is.

 

[Plato]

Look up "diskpart" in help & support

delpart may even show you in a XP command prompt:
http://www.ntfaq.com/download/delpart.exe

 

[Alex Nichol]

Nope, that's not working. :-(

How else can I do this? I want to find out exactly how
big the whole drive is.

In XP, Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive. It will
show you the division into partitions, with sizes of each. Things like
Linux ones will show as 'Healthy - Unknown'

 

[Sue Michele]

-----Original Message-----


Seriously? Are you sure you booted to dos? You need a dos bootdisk to do
so if you have XP but I assumed you knew what dos is.

Well now I feel stupid! Duh! I forgot you have to boot
to DOS to do this and not just go to the command prompt.
Like I said, it's been quite a while since I screwed with
this. I'd better find some instructions for reformatting
because I *know* I'm not going to remember everything!

Thanks!

Also, Alex's solution does the trick too, without
rebooting.

Both go into my files.

 

[Sue Michele]

-----Original Message-----


In XP, Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive. It will
show you the division into partitions, with sizes of each. Things like
Linux ones will show as 'Healthy - Unknown'

Thanks, Alex!

Interesting, I see not two, but three, "Healthy - Unknown"
drives:
3.42GB
243MB
2.76GB

The smaller one should be the boot drive, but I have no
idea whatsoever why I created *two* others. Well, doesn't
matter so much; I'm gonna reformat them and get rid of the
partitions anyway....

Thanks again!

 

[Alex Nichol]

Interesting, I see not two, but three, "Healthy - Unknown"
drives:
3.42GB
243MB
2.76GB

The smaller one should be the boot drive, but I have no
idea whatsoever why I created *two* others. Well, doesn't
matter so much; I'm gonna reformat them and get rid of the
partitions anyway....

Guess - on the basis of how I set up Linux - , they are for the /
[root], /swap and /user or possibly /home nodes of Linux