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DOS commands
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The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
just run chkdsk without any command switches.
It should tell the filesystem at the top.
You can also run fdisk - but care should be taken lest you delete your partitions.
It should tell the filesystem at the top.
You can also run fdisk - but care should be taken lest you delete your partitions.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Yes, there is.
just run chkdsk without any command switches.
It should tell the filesystem at the top.
You can also run fdisk - but care should be taken lest you delete your partitions.
Tried that but it starts doing a disk check which wont work for me.
And it is...
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Try " CHKNTFS C: "
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
He's running DOS. Not Windows.
It works but it only states if a drive is NTFS and not FAT32 or CDFS, it also takes a few seconds while it checks for something I think.
It's under dos but in windows xp, I forgot to mension that
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
It works but it only states if a drive is NTFS and not FAT32 or CDFS, it also takes a few seconds while it checks for something I think.
It's under dos but in windows xp, I forgot to mension that
what happens when you run that command on a FS / Drive that is not NTFS?
When you run it on a CD drive it will report....
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Huh? Where did he say what OS he is using?
Sorry, my bad, I forgot to say that im using dos under xp so I guess its "windows xp dos"
This is what it says on both a cd drive and a fat32 memory stick:
"Cannot query state of drive X:"
So I still wont know whether to scan it or not because I wont know if it is a CDFS or FAT32, I will only know that it is not NTFS.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
When I run that command on a CD drive it reports it as RAW
and when I run it on a FAT drive it reports it as FAT
bekdik
Honorary Master
Suggest you look in the Microsoft scripting site.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
When I run it on my Flash Drive I get this report...
So on my system it reports...
RAW = CD File System
FAT = FAT
FAT32 = FAT32
NTFS = NTFS
How come it gives an error message on yours?
The only varialbe is the drive letter.
So on my system it reports...
RAW = CD File System
FAT = FAT
FAT32 = FAT32
NTFS = NTFS
How come it gives an error message on yours?
The only varialbe is the drive letter.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Thats wierd, maybe there is something wrong with my cd-rom drive
Have you got a spare Floppy or Flash Drive?
Format it with FAT/FAT32 and then run the command on that drive.
Kalvaer
Expert Member
Mind does the same. You could try search here http://www.computing.net/forum/dos/1.htmlThats wierd, maybe there is something wrong with my cd-rom drive
EDIT: Ok wait.. depends on if you have a CD in the drive or not
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Using
will produce
Maybe you can filter the highlighted part out in order to check for NTFS?
Code:
fsutil fsinfo volumeinfo c:\
Code:
Volume Name :
Volume Serial Number : 0x704f082d
Max Component Length : 255
[b]File System Name : NTFS[/b]
Supports Case-sensitive filenames
Preserves Case of filenames
Supports Unicode in filenames
Preserves & Enforces ACL's
Supports file-based Compression
Supports Disk Quotas
Supports Sparse files
Supports Reparse Points
Supports Object Identifiers
Supports Encrypted File System
Supports Named Streams