Verifying disk structure

[John]

Hi

I have been backing and restoring my disk partitions using disk imaging
utilities. Is there a way to check the integrity of the whole disk including
the partitions? Chkdks only checks within a partition as far as I can tell
and is therefore not good enough.

Thanks

Regards

 

[Leonard Grey]

Check with the manufacturer of your hard disk. They may have a free
utility you can download.

It may also help to understand that, to Windows, each partition looks
like a separate hard disk.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi

I have been backing and restoring my disk partitions using disk imaging
utilities. Is there a way to check the integrity of the whole disk including
the partitions? Chkdks only checks within a partition as far as I can tell
and is therefore not good enough.

Chkdsk should be fine, however you have to check each
partition/logical drive separately.

However there's normally no reason to check at all, unless you are
having problems.

 

[Lil' Dave]

No. Windows views a partition as a partition within windows explorer.
Windows explorer has no functional way of viewing an entire hard drive, one
or many partitions.
Dave