Re: A fast trick that did not work

Previously, on Usenet Harry <harryooopotter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How much total disk space Windows explorer could see?

Reasonable, about 76 GB I think. As normal after format.

There may be a hidden partition.

Well if it is hidden then it is hidden and that space would not be
visible in Windows at all.

Use a partition manager to check if there is a hidden partition.
Partition Magic, or Acronis Disk Director are good commercial
partition managers. If you want freebies, just google "free partition
manager".

Yes I know about those. I was short of time but next time I get my
hands on that Fujitsu I will have my fancy bootable USB stick along,
with both ADD and PM on it.

You did not know what you were doing.

Like I said, I tried a fast trick and it did not work. I have a bunch
of computers myself and double as many HD's. I clone and transplant
and know quite a bit, but I always want to find out the details of why
and why not.

Even in the 80's when people use MS DOS, your experiment would
fail. Not to mention Winows 3.1, Win95, Win98, Win-ME, NT3.5,
NT4, Win2000, XP, ..., etc where copying files back-and-forth would
not
preserve the bootability of HDD partitions after formatting them.

I thought the boot sector was not touched when formating in Windows,
but that was obviously wrong.

Start to use backup/restore programs today.
Acronis True Image is my favorite; some people use Norton
Ghost and etc.

I have all of those and have used Ghost since it first came on the
market some ten yars ago. But that is not was I was asking about
anyway.

I certainly did do a Ghost image of the C: partitiion of my experiment
drive before formating it. But it would be counter productive on my
friends drive. There is crap on I want to get rid of, that is the
whole point of the operation.

Thanks for replies. But please gentlemen, stick to the subject.

Lars
Stockholm
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