Double your disk space??

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I just tried it, works, well, mostly.

Used stamped Norton Sys Works 2003 Pro, says 9/02 on it. Don't think was
exact same version as article, but worked fine.

Started with WD 4.0 GB drive. Ended with same 4.0 + it added a 1.4 GB D:
drive. I then tried to copy 1.3 GB of mp3's on it. About 1/2 way into it,
system re-booted (not blue screen, just re-boot). Upon re-boot, it ran
scandisk on D:, then booted normally. Then cleaned recovered space & totally
filled it up w/mp3. Been playing mp3's from this drive, some weird sounds
occasionally. One directory entry is non-english (screwed up), but 99.9% of
music sounds normal. Not reliable enough for me, but will continue testing.

Norm Perron
 
Looks OK to me.

Norm

Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 1999-2004.

OS: Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Partition tables:

Disk: 1 Cylinders: 524 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 4110

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*0B 63 8417997 4110 0 1 1 523 254 63 NB OK
0 2 05 5478165 2939895 1435 341 0 1 523 254 63 OK

341 1 0B 63 2939832 1435 341 1 1 523 254 63 OK OK
 
Captain said:
Looks OK to me.

Norm

Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 1999-2004.

OS: Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Partition tables:

Disk: 1 Cylinders: 524 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 4110

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*0B 63 8417997 4110 0 1 1 523 254 63 NB OK
0 2 05 5478165 2939895 1435 341 0 1 523 254 63 OK

341 1 0B 63 2939832 1435 341 1 1 523 254 63 OK OK
Click to expand...


Looks OK??
It is showing partitions that are overlapping eachother. Doesn't sound
copacetic to me.

Quick... what partition does cylinder 400 belong to?
Hint:
Your 1st primary partition goes from Cylinder 0 - 523
Your 2nd logical partition goes from Cylinder 341 - 523


-WD
 
Will Dormann said:
Looks OK??
It is showing partitions that are overlapping eachother. Doesn't sound
copacetic to me.

Quick... what partition does cylinder 400 belong to?
Hint:
Your 1st primary partition goes from Cylinder 0 - 523
Your 2nd logical partition goes from Cylinder 341 - 523


-WD
Click to expand...

Indeed. it's easy to create 4 or whatever many 80 Gb partitions on a 80 Gb
disk, but they will all overlap and dataloss is just a matter of time.

The Ghost 'ghost' partition does just that: Even on a fully partitioned disk
it will create it's virtual partition, it just needs some 'free space' and
define the start and end position of the free space in the partition table.
It will fail if all 4 partition 'slots' (is what Symantec calls this I
think) are in use. As long as Ghost knows what it's doing it's okay. If
people who obviously don't know what they're doing start using this 'extra'
space then there's a problem. Will is right and Capt'n Norm is playing with
fire.

Captain Norm: I can give you 4 4Gb partitions, or even more if you want,
just lemme know! 1$ per extra Gig only ...


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Joep said:
Indeed. it's easy to create 4 or whatever many 80 Gb partitions on a 80 Gb
disk, but they will all overlap and dataloss is just a matter of time.

The Ghost 'ghost' partition does just that: Even on a fully partitioned disk
it will create it's virtual partition, it just needs some 'free space' and
define the start and end position of the free space in the partition table.
Click to expand...

So now we know what that "pull the plug" was for.
 
Captain Norm said:
Looks OK to me.
Click to expand...

Yup, 'Looks' OK. But isn't.
Norm

Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 1999-2004.

OS: Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Partition tables:

Disk: 1 Cylinders: 524 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 4110

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*0B 63 8417997 4110 0 1 1 523 254 63 NB OK
0 2 05 5478165 2939895 1435 341 0 1 523 254 63 OK

341 1 0B 63 2939832 1435 341 1 1 523 254 63 OK OK
Click to expand...

Looks like Svend has still some work to do.
 
Yup, 'Looks' OK. But isn't.


Looks like Svend has still some work to do.
Click to expand...

At least there is room for new features. But it provides the details
needed to manually inspect the partition tables.

One thing which is not known from the output is the number of sectors
and file system of the primary partition, since the boot sector
information did not match the partition table information. The NB.

Others have pointed out the overlapping partitions.
 
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen said:
At least there is room for new features. But it provides the details
needed to manually inspect the partition tables.

One thing which is not known from the output is the number of sectors
and file system of the primary partition, since the boot sector
information did not match the partition table information.
Click to expand...
The NB.
Click to expand...

Ah yes, that mystical 'Nota Bene' or !Beware!
 
You guys are right. Since the partition program said OK, I assumed they
meant OK. Guess they never looked for overlapped sectors. Besides, since I'm
just playing around with this, just tried to GHOST this drive, reports
errors when checks disk. Looks like there's really no free lunch.

Norm
 
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