... Try Testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html It saved my day many times already. Best of luck... -- Dax...
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Joe Chan
joekinchan
Jun 3, 2005 12:18 am
Could anyone guide me through in solving my friend's computer issue? Scenario: His notebook computer is IBM Thinkpad 390X, running Win 98SE. Single HDD, 11GB,...
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doc_chiron
Jun 3, 2005 2:24 am
... partition C: 2GB(FAT16), and LOGICAL partition D: 9GB (FAT32). ... problem? If I convert the C: to FAT32 in order to bypass the limitation of 2GB, I'm...
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Antoine Leca
antoinecosesa
Jun 3, 2005 8:04 am
... First information: a 2GB FAT16 uses very big (32K) clusters, this leads to high loss because of fragmentation (about 20K/file). ... You are using only...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Jun 4, 2005 2:13 pm
... Joe Sounds like the guys have covered this pretty well but I thought I might add a few meandering thoughts. So, thinking out loud: Backing up D strikes me...
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dggerman12
Jun 6, 2005 3:51 pm
... Single HDD, 11GB, with primary partition C: 2GB (FAT16), and extended partition D: 9GB (FAT32). ... + With all the "hopes" and "concerns"; are you sure you...
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John Bischoff
mingobat
Jun 6, 2005 5:42 pm
... I have partitioned my 'zero' drive into C: D: and E: . . . . C: is quite small - just big enough for the operating system (XP) and a few programs that...
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Antoine Leca
antoinecosesa
Jun 7, 2005 2:01 pm
... I do not pretend to be an example, but I should highlight I live happily without C: drive. Well, in fact there is one (a network mount), so it allow me to...
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rjemery77
Jun 13, 2005 6:04 pm
I have a W98 system whose main hard drive consists of primary, extended and logical partitions. Some of the logical partitions are Linux systems of type ext3....
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Jose Morales
mavenusa
Jun 13, 2005 6:05 pm
I really like the power of RPM, I'm using version 2.44 (BETA). I cannot find anywehere simple documentation on how to use the tool step by step for a multiple...
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doc_chiron
Jun 13, 2005 8:54 pm
... extended and logical partitions. Some of the logical partitions are Linux systems of type ext3. I wish to copy all of these partitions to a spare hard...
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doc_chiron
Jun 13, 2005 10:09 pm
Doc "moderator" Chiron here: [original msg edited at will; with my comments interspersed] ... I cannot find anywhere, simple documentation on how to use the...
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Antoine Leca
antoinecosesa
Jun 14, 2005 9:08 am
Hi Doc, ... How can it be done? I mean, can Ranish Parition Manager really copy data from a disk A to a physically different disk B? Antoine [Non-text portions...
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Joseph Blowtowski
joeblow900900
Jun 14, 2005 4:29 pm
Can anyone please let me know if Ranish can do this and is so, how I do it? I have a 40GB NTFS Win2000 HD, 1kb cluster size. Performance is terrible. All I...
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doc_chiron
Jun 14, 2005 9:03 pm
NO, but you should look at PartitionMagic to POSSIBLY perform this function. Ranish knows NOTHING about NTFS beyond the fact it uses ID type 0x07. Even with...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Jun 15, 2005 11:59 am
Antoine I've only tried copying from one partition to another (not from physical disks) but that itself didn't work well with XP. Or at least not for me. Just...
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Joe Chan
joekinchan
Jun 16, 2005 1:16 am
Dear helpers, My HDD re-partition job was completed (C: 4GB, remaining D:). My friend took back his notebook computer happily. :) But I may have disappointed...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Jun 16, 2005 11:15 am
... No risk there. PM is a bit special. Glad it worked out. Thanks for letting us know how it went. Makes all the difference. Best wishes Dermot...
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josekalayil
Jun 16, 2005 5:44 pm
Hi, I have a SATA 40 GB hardrive. I installed Ranish PM and have two OSes installed. Solaris and Windows. I made a 8 GB partion with Ranish first, but solaris...
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Antoine Leca
antoinecosesa
Jun 20, 2005 6:32 am
Hi, What does mean "[a Ranish partition], and [X] could not see that partition?" Do you mean you created a partition type F0 to install RPM, and Solaris nor ...
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jglong3@...
jglong3
Jun 23, 2005 5:44 pm
Hello,,, :) :) ,,,,and THANKS for your time, help, and advise!!! :) :) Given the following situation with reports from SCANDISK, is using PARTMAN...
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dggerman12
Jun 24, 2005 1:01 am
The cpu (which went bad) is so far from the disk (in terms of both logically and electrially ) that affecting the ... actual tack/sector/cylinder address ......
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Jun 24, 2005 7:33 pm
Jery If you have Steve Gibson's Spinrite run it. Curently at version 6. That's one of the best tools out there for checking hard drives. It will also bring...
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jglong3@...
jglong3
Jun 25, 2005 10:10 pm
Hello dggerman12,,,, :) :) THANKS for your REPLY!!! :) :) OOOPSS,,,Sorry about the use of FLAGGED,,,,,a better word would have been "displayed" And, your right...
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Jim
riff_a440
Jun 25, 2005 10:10 pm
Heres my setup... 160G HD Partitions.... RPM 10M (arbitrary size) Win98SE 1G boot (for going online. trashed often by viri) Win98SE 1G...
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jglong3@...
jglong3
Jun 25, 2005 10:10 pm
Hello Dermot,,,, :) :) OK and thanks for the REPLY!!!! Yep and THANK GOODNESS FOR BACKUPS,,,,,,,that was a normal scheduled event and almost all has been...
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Alan
alanzfq
Jun 26, 2005 9:11 am
... From: "Jim" ... Had no trouble provided all other partitions are hidden. Make sure it installs on the C: drive. Alan...
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Antoine Leca
antoinecosesa
Jun 27, 2005 6:49 am
... Beware of the problems with >137GB disks (a.k.a LBA48 or 128GB limit). I certainly would try without _anything_ beyond cylinder 16700, just to be sure the...
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Jim
riff_a440
Jun 27, 2005 1:10 pm
... Thanks Alan. Yeah I tried that. At first I created a partition, installed, hid it, created another, installed, hid it, and so on. Always hiding all other...
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greghuzyak
Jul 5, 2005 5:17 pm
i have a 39 GHz hard disk. I made two small partitions (about 4 gig ea.) and one large one for file saving and what not. I tried to resize the second and third...
