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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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You can list volumes (or partitions on basic disks):

Select a volume to manipulate (you may also select an entire drive):

You can run commands at the diskpart prompt to add, change, or delete

volumes and partitions on drives, mount or dismount volumes, and even

manipulate software-level RAID arrays. Use the format command to format

a newly created volume.

Run the clean command at the diskpart prompt to wipe all partition and

volume information off the currently selected disk. This tool handles nasty

corruptions that simply won’t let Windows boot and serves as my last-ditch

step before I toss a drive.

Commands available at the diskpart prompt handle volumes and partitions,

but you still need a tool for handling file systems. Both WinRE and the

regular command prompt provide all of the typical utilities such as copy,

move, del, and format. One tool, however—fsutil—does a few more

interesting jobs:

• Typing fsinfo provides a detailed query about the drives and volumes.

• Typing fsutil dirty <drive name> tells you if Windows considers the

drive to be “dirty”—meaning you need to run autochk at the next

reboot. When Windows detects an error in the file system for a drive, it

flags that drive as a dirty drive or dirty volume. The disk checking

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