What is the purpose of this first partition on my slave disk?

Farouk Dindar

The purpose is what you intend to use it for.

"Farouk Dindar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What is the purpose of this first partition on my slave disk?
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> Farouk Dindar

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> What is the purpose of this first partition on my slave disk?

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

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>> What is the purpose of this first partition on my slave disk?
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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

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:44:53 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (Farouk
Dindar) wrote:

> >> What is the purpose of this first partition on my slave disk?

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

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.

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

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...
>

Hi Michael

That is correct.

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

Farouk

Farouk Dindar wrote:
> I
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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...
>>
>
> Hi Michael
>
> That is correct.
>
> I have 4 logical drives on my slave drive. The total disk is 40 GIG
>
> Farouk

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.
>

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