8 meg partition

[Guest]

I wanted to ghost a brand new micron client pro desktop. I've added the
software and made my ghost disk to begin to burn my image to DVD, but upon
reboot Ghost locks up right when the Ghost GUI begins. You never get the full
GUI and the mouse is an hourglass. Okay, when I went back later to re-fdisk
that computer I saw that it had a 8meg partition and a 32 meg partition. I
can't get rid of that 8 meg partition it gives me the error "The
unpartitioned space you selected..." I can't remember the rest of the error
but its something like "is used by Windows" , anyway, its a Microsoft error.
I'm convinced that Ghost locks up due to that 8 meg partition. You cannot
delete it with Fdisk or using the Windows set up disk. The Windows set up
disk sees it but it will not allow you to delete it. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!!

 

[Alan]

I wanted to ghost a brand new micron client pro desktop. I've added the
software and made my ghost disk to begin to burn my image to DVD, but upon
reboot Ghost locks up right when the Ghost GUI begins. You never get the
full
GUI and the mouse is an hourglass. Okay, when I went back later to
re-fdisk
that computer I saw that it had a 8meg partition and a 32 meg partition. I
can't get rid of that 8 meg partition it gives me the error "The
unpartitioned space you selected..." I can't remember the rest of the
error
but its something like "is used by Windows" , anyway, its a Microsoft
error.
I'm convinced that Ghost locks up due to that 8 meg partition. You cannot
delete it with Fdisk or using the Windows set up disk. The Windows set up
disk sees it but it will not allow you to delete it. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!!

Some makers set machines with a hidden partition for recovery proposes. It's
very possible that is what your maker has done. Ask them.

 

[Alan]

Some makers set machines with a hidden partition for recovery proposes.
It's very possible that is what your maker has done. Ask them.

recovery proposes should be recovery purposes

(It often has an OS image there rather than give you a proper Windows
install CD).

 

[MoiMeme]

Ghost creates a partition for itself, hidden. Mine is 7Mb in size.
Don't know for the GUI start lock however.

What Ghost version are you using ?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Jerry

What information appears in the Disk Management Tool?

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/en-us

Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System and
Application logs for the last day and post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, and
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste.
Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

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[Steve N.]

I wanted to ghost a brand new micron client pro desktop. I've added the
software and made my ghost disk to begin to burn my image to DVD, but upon
reboot Ghost locks up right when the Ghost GUI begins. You never get the full
GUI and the mouse is an hourglass. Okay, when I went back later to re-fdisk
that computer I saw that it had a 8meg partition and a 32 meg partition. I
can't get rid of that 8 meg partition it gives me the error "The
unpartitioned space you selected..." I can't remember the rest of the error
but its something like "is used by Windows" , anyway, its a Microsoft error.
I'm convinced that Ghost locks up due to that 8 meg partition. You cannot
delete it with Fdisk or using the Windows set up disk. The Windows set up
disk sees it but it will not allow you to delete it. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!!

Windows 2K and XP reserve at least 1MB of disk space as unpartitioned
for the ability to convert to dynamic disk, in many modern drives the
smallest space able to be left unpartitioned is around 8GB. I doubt that
this unallocated space is causing the Ghost problem since it exists on
all XP instaalations in some size or other and other people are using
Ghost with no problem.

Steve N.

 

[Jonny]

7-8MB unallocated space is normal with FAT32 extended partitions. The
unallocated space is not a partition. You shouldn't use fdisk in windows if
possible.
.............
Jonny

 

[Guest]

Alan- Yes, that's a Micron partition but I get a Windows error. I want to
delete that partition. Ghost 2003 works on other machines in the shop no
problem (if they come from Micron with no OS - I load them myself, use Ghost,
then image other machines with no OS). If they come from the factory with XP
I can't use ghost.

MoiMeme- Ghost 2003

Gerry-Disk Manager won't see that 8 meg partition

Steve - Thanks for you opinion, but I do

Jonny - It's all NTFS

hope this helps

 

[MoiMeme]

Ghost creates a hidden partition, and sometimes can lock when it can't go
out of it? But that only happens when you try to start ghost from windows.
Have you tried starting Ghost from a bootable floppy with ghost.exe on it ?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Jerry

Are you using TweakUi?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[Guest]

Sheesh! All it was was I had to update my ghost. If you buy the oem on the
cd you won't have this problem but if you get it off the net like i did
you'll have to
go up and get the updates and then its no problem.
sorry about that guys..thanks anyway
jerry