7.8 MB partition

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Likely it was once a boot drive and thats a small partition for a boot manager.
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Thanks

I have recently been using Drive Image 7 and Acronis True image.

When I restore the Drive Image image to my primary drive I get an
error message. "ntoskrnl.exe corrupted or missing"

I can successfully restore from Acronis.

I note with Partition magic that when I used True Image there is this
7.8 meg partition at the beginning but when I use Drive Image retore
there is no such partition.

Could this be the problem with Drive Image 7

I have had the small partition on my slave drive as long as I remember.

Thanks

Farouk Dindar
 
It sounds like you're talking about the unused space at the beginning of a
slave disk, not a real partition (Does it have a drive letter. Can you copy
files to it?). On a slave, the first cylinder isn't used for a partition,
so if you have a 6-head drive, 6 full tracks are empty and that can add up
to multi-megabytes on a large drive. On the master, the first partition
starts with the 2nd head on cylinder 0, meaning less waste (or maybe with
the first sector following the MBR - can't remember now). Don't ask me why
it can't be done this way on the slave too, it's just the way the BIOS was
written. Ask IBM.
 
It sounds like you're talking about the unused space at the beginning of a
slave disk, not a real partition
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Yes , you are right.



(Does it have a drive letter.

No

On a slave, the first cylinder isn't used for a partition,
so if you have a 6-head drive, 6 full tracks are empty and that can add up
to multi-megabytes on a large drive. On the master, the first partition
starts with the 2nd head on cylinder 0, meaning less waste (or maybe with
the first sector following the MBR - can't remember now). Don't ask me why
it can't be done this way on the slave too, it's just the way the BIOS was
written. Ask IBM.
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Thanks for the explanation

It was just bothering me :-)

I can see these little "holes" with Partition Magic.

I have enough storage space.

Farouk Dindar
 
Farouk said:
What is the purpose of this first partition on my slave disk?

Farouk Dindar
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Is it a partition or is it just 7.8 Mb of _unallocated space_?
If so, is the very first partition on your slave drive an extended partition
holding 1 or more logical drives? If so, this seems to be normal...got this
7.8 Mb of unallocate dspace here too...

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"
 
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Is it a partition or is it just 7.8 Mb of _unallocated space_?
If so, is the very first partition on your slave drive an extended partition
holding 1 or more logical drives? If so, this seems to be normal...got this
7.8 Mb of unallocate dspace here too...
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Hi Michael

That is correct.

I have 4 logical drives on my slave drive. The total disk is 40 GIG

Farouk
 
Farouk said:
I


Hi Michael

That is correct.

I have 4 logical drives on my slave drive. The total disk is 40 GIG

Farouk
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Thought so, if the first partition were primary, the 7.8 Mb unallocated
space wouldn't be there...
Or if you would confirt the first logical partition into a primary one, the
preceeding unallocated space can be assigned to it using the function
_Resize / Move..._ in PartitionMagic.

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"
 
Thought so, if the first partition were primary, the 7.8 Mb unallocated
space wouldn't be there...
Or if you would confirt the first logical partition into a primary one, the
preceeding unallocated space can be assigned to it using the function
_Resize / Move..._ in PartitionMagic.
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Hi Michael

My reason for showing an interest in this "empty space" is a little more
serious :-)

I bought Drive Image 7 and it looked like a fabulous product.

I imaged my 10 gig partition with about 2 gig of data to a USB to drive.

I then deleted the primary win 2 k partition. ( I have 3 primary partitions
on my main disk. The partition that I imaged is the first one.)

I then used the Drive Image CD to boot up and it recognises the
the USB drive with the image. I restore the image. Everything goes fine
until I reboot the restored win 2k. The system crashes with a message
that "ntsokrnl.exe file is missing or corrupted"

I then did a restore from one of my Drive Image 2002 backup on the
slave drive and everything works fine.

I then used Acronis True Image to create an image on the USB
drive. I did a total delete of all partitions on my disk with fdisk from
win 98.

I then restored the Acronis created image from the USB drive and
it works fine!

I noted one difference.

When I restored with DI7 the primary partition starts right at the
beginning. When I used TI to restore there is this 7.8 meg space.

Does DI restored image need this space to boot properly?

I have sent an email to PowerQuest but I doubt that there will be
a speedy reply.

DI7 looks buggy to me.

I have spent HOURS trying to figure this out.

The problem also occurs on my office computer.

Farouk Dindar
 
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