XP x64's partitioner

[Bill Cunningham[_2_]]

I hd some trouble the other day. I have online backups so all is saved.
But anyway I use gparted a partitioning program and it uses ntfsresize. I
partition with fdisk and I can alter partitions find. Add and split as I
need.

Well the other day there was what XP install called an unknown
partition. I deleted the partition and created a new one. All but 7 MB of
empty space was formated. This caused problems. Would it be best to not use
MS's partitioner? I used gparted a 3rd party partitioner to expand that
partition over those 7 MB of empty wasted space. The OS wouldn't boot. I
tried fixboot, mbrfix, bootcfg /rebuild. It was a lost cause.

Is this stuff on purpose? Did I over look something I could've done?

Bill

[Paul[_32_]]

Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I hd some trouble the other day. I have online backups so all is saved.
> But anyway I use gparted a partitioning program and it uses ntfsresize. I
> partition with fdisk and I can alter partitions find. Add and split as I
> need.
>
> Well the other day there was what XP install called an unknown
> partition. I deleted the partition and created a new one. All but 7 MB of
> empty space was formated. This caused problems. Would it be best to not use
> MS's partitioner? I used gparted a 3rd party partitioner to expand that
> partition over those 7 MB of empty wasted space. The OS wouldn't boot. I
> tried fixboot, mbrfix, bootcfg /rebuild. It was a lost cause.
>
> Is this stuff on purpose? Did I over look something I could've done?
>
> Bill

Obviously the environments have some differences.
Windows has Dynamic Disk, Linux doesn't use that as
far as I know. 7MB is too small to be related to GPT.

I would recommend you practice with "disktype" on the
Linux side. It's not in the OS by default, but it's
a small utility, and it can identify things for you.

sudo disktype /dev/sda <=== identify all objects on disk
sudo disktype /dev/sda3 <=== identify the third partition on SDA
sudo disktype winimage.img <=== identify FAT within a 1440K floppy image
sudo disktype some.iso <=== identify setup within ISO image of a CD

http://disktype.sourceforge.net/ (if you need sample source)

There's nothing wrong with using both environments,
with a little preparation. I have a Cygwin version of disktype
for Windows, and on Linux I just get it from Package Manager.

If you see something you don't recognize, identify
it first ???

HTH,
Paul

[Bill Cunningham[_2_]]

"Paul" > wrote in message
...
> Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> I hd some trouble the other day. I have online backups so all is
>> saved. But anyway I use gparted a partitioning program and it uses
>> ntfsresize. I partition with fdisk and I can alter partitions find. Add
>> and split as I need.
>>
>> Well the other day there was what XP install called an unknown
>> partition. I deleted the partition and created a new one. All but 7 MB of
>> empty space was formated. This caused problems. Would it be best to not
>> use MS's partitioner? I used gparted a 3rd party partitioner to expand
>> that partition over those 7 MB of empty wasted space. The OS wouldn't
>> boot. I tried fixboot, mbrfix, bootcfg /rebuild. It was a lost cause.
>>
>> Is this stuff on purpose? Did I over look something I could've done?
>>
>> Bill
>
> Obviously the environments have some differences.
> Windows has Dynamic Disk, Linux doesn't use that as
> far as I know. 7MB is too small to be related to GPT.
>
> I would recommend you practice with "disktype" on the
> Linux side. It's not in the OS by default, but it's
> a small utility, and it can identify things for you.
>
> sudo disktype /dev/sda <=== identify all objects on disk
> sudo disktype /dev/sda3 <=== identify the third partition on
> SDA
> sudo disktype winimage.img <=== identify FAT within a 1440K
> floppy image
> sudo disktype some.iso <=== identify setup within ISO image
> of a CD
>
> http://disktype.sourceforge.net/ (if you need sample source)
>
> There's nothing wrong with using both environments,
> with a little preparation. I have a Cygwin version of disktype
> for Windows, and on Linux I just get it from Package Manager.
>
> If you see something you don't recognize, identify
> it first ???
>
> HTH,
> Paul

Ok I will look at this disktype. I was thinking that something might've
been messed up in the partitioning.MS's partitioner doesn't look like it's
using standard partition schemes.

Bill

[philo]

On 03/06/2017 03:23 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I hd some trouble the other day. I have online backups so all is saved.
> But anyway I use gparted a partitioning program and it uses ntfsresize. I
> partition with fdisk and I can alter partitions find. Add and split as I
> need.
>
> Well the other day there was what XP install called an unknown
> partition. I deleted the partition and created a new one. All but 7 MB of
> empty space was formated. This caused problems. Would it be best to not use
> MS's partitioner? I used gparted a 3rd party partitioner to expand that
> partition over those 7 MB of empty wasted space. The OS wouldn't boot. I
> tried fixboot, mbrfix, bootcfg /rebuild. It was a lost cause.
>
> Is this stuff on purpose? Did I over look something I could've done?
>
> Bill
>
>


When dealing with NTFS I never use any Linux utilities, I always create
and format partitions from within Windows.
It's common to have a small amount of "wasted" space such as that 7MB
you see.

I absolutely would not try to try to use that minute amount by using
Gparted or any other utility....as you can see you hosed your system.

Whatever undescribed problem you said was caused by the unused 7mb
portion was more than likely caused by something else