closing command prompt in the middle of an operation

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  1. Posts : 1,442
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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    closing command prompt in the middle of an operation


    I was doing a clean all command on one of my HDD's. I was closing windows and accidentally closed the command prompt window. The drive is in an external dock and the light is still flashing like it's still doing what I asked it to do.

    I reopened CMD and typed diskpart but that's as far as I took it. I haven't checked what services are running.
    Last edited by HAVOC; 05 Jul 2016 at 19:36.
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  2. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #2

    Can you reboot back into Windows 7?
    If you can, then just try the cmd again on the selected drive. Of course you can't select the drive/partition "C" that Windows 7 is installed.

    If you can completing this tutorial by Golden would be helpful.

    Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
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  3. Posts : 1,442
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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       #3

    I never logged off of Windows. I was closing multiple windows (not the OS), and I clicked on the X for the CMD prompt. I reentered the diskpart/clean all command on the drive and it seems to working.
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  4. Posts : 1,442
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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    Here is the snip. #3 is the drive I'm cleaning.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails closing command prompt in the middle of an operation-hdd.png  
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  5. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
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    I'm curious.
    Please complete the tutorial as the tutorial is wrote.

    I try to remember that a reboot or shutdown and startup can have a cleansing effect after a small boo boo.
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  6. Posts : 1,442
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    I restarted the computer. Here is the screenshot of disk management. I'm also running clean all again.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails closing command prompt in the middle of an operation-disk-mgmt.png  
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  7. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
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    Did you or are you running the Clean All cmd on disk 3?

    Did it complete? That big of drive would take a lot of time.

    Remember that a drive (Disk 3) might not show up as (Disk #3) in the cmd prompt. One must be sure of what disk the Clean All command is done on.
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  8. Posts : 1,442
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    The screenshot above is before I started the clean all command. The command prompt says succeeded so I started on my other drives. I have 11 HDD's that I wasn't sure what if anything was on them so I wanted to erase them.
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  9. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
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    If I had to do what you are trying to do, I would do it in this fashion.
    Cleaning 11 HDD will take a very long time.

    1. Remove all drives except the drive Windows 7 is installed and 1 other HDD.

    2. Do a Clean All on that 1 drive.

    3. When the 1 drive has been cleaned, replace it with another drive and run the Clean All cmd on that drive.

    Do this until all the drives you want cleaned has been completed.
    This method will allow you to keep track of what has been completed and make sure that any drives you don't want cleaned are not cleaned.
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  10. Posts : 1,442
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    That's what I'm doing. The drives came out of computers that I built/disassembled. I have them in a pile and was cleaning them one by one. I'm almost done, I'm doing the last one as I type this.
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