Samsung 4k drives and there software for them

[willbill]

Spent an hour+ this morning recovering.

Still not sure why things got messed up.

Ran across this pdf with useful info on
"Operating System support for drives with
greater than 2.19 TB capacity." at bottom
of page 1 (of 2 pages, so short download):
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=120

Bill

 

[willbill]

I've read this regarding multi-booting and the "new partition boundaries"
introduced with Vista: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html .
Perhaps boundaries have nothing to do with cloning, but they seem to
be important for booting. At least that what the article seems to say.

*TimDaniels*

Nice set of write-ups at that site. Odds are
it'll help me to sort out the general subject
of multi-booting and clone backups.

Bill

 

[Arno]

[.........]
Clonezilla doesn't care about partition boundaries. It makes backup copies of a partition - why should it care how
the partition is aligned?

I think you are worrying too much about this - you've either been using poor utilities that have lots of problems, or
you've been reading too much marketing brochures ("upgrade to our latest version - it supports 1 MB partition
boundaries!!" - implying that other software does not).

I've read this regarding multi-booting and the "new partition boundaries"
introduced with Vista: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html .
Perhaps boundaries have nothing to do with cloning, but they seem to
be important for booting. At least that what the article seems to say.

*TimDaniels*

It used to be that BIOSes could not boot anything higher than
1024 cylinders. No idea how that has developed, I have not
booted anything besides Grub from the MBR in likely > 10 years.
Grup has no issues booting Linux/XP/Win7 from wherever.

Apart from that issue, you can set your partition boundaries as you like
as long as you do not have any overlap. (You would most likely have to do
overlap by manual disk edition anyways, so that is not a concern either.)
The 4096B/1MB is for sepeed and some minor reliability improvement. You can
also shift partitions and, given the right tools, resize them. It is not
rocket science. It is just a layer most users do not get to see. It is
really pretty simple.

Arno