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

Tom Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sat Apr 11 09:09:07 EDT 2015


Thank you for the underlying mechanism! I'd wonder aloud about the 
corporate motivation for magic blocks on the disk, but I'd probably get it 
wrong.

Again, to the whole list - Thank You!

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Jim Kinney wrote:

> 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 belo
> w,
>  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 t
> he
>  underlying file sy
>  stem
> tends to freak it out.
>
>  Yes. Please. Make life easier on your support guys.
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