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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote:

> Yes I ran chkdsk c: /R
> It was not my intention to be bitching about it. I just realized that the 
> outcome or the result of the command was not what I had expected. I thought 
> that c: would make chkdsk work only with c:!
> I've now learned the hard way that that is not the case.

Windows lives in an insular universe, where everything else is Windows. 
Or should be, as far as it is concerned.

Same as always: make a backup before doing something serious to the 
disk.