[ale] Fought Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10 (resolved)

[Jim Kinney]

There's a magic block windows writes to the drive that can't be moved. If you run the defrag tool, it shows up as immovable green stripes. Where those get written is variable but based on something that happens in the install that is computed from ram, hard drive and CPU params. XP used to write them at the end of the drive which blocked any other use of the drive. If gparted moves a boundary past those blocks, windows will puke. There are tools in windows that can shrink a partition and move the blocks if needed.

On April 10, 2015 11:17:14 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>
>> Fascinating. I've used it dozens of times with no ill effects. Maybe
>even
>> hundreds of times, since I forgot about cloning with fog. Which
>version of
>> windows were the ones where you had issues? I'm talking about win7
>and below,
>> with MBR and not GPT.
>
>Vista and later.  I've never had Widnws NOT complain about something
>after
>resizing (usually smaller) and adding other non-NTFS partitions.
>
>We see this issue at installfests all the time.
>
>>> With Windows, always be prepared with a "recovery disk", since
>changes to the
>>> underlying file system tends to freak it out.
>> 
>> Yes. Please. Make life easier on your support guys.
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