[ale] FIPS

[James Kinney]

Congratulations! You've been bit the Microsoft Windows bug.

Windows 98 wrote an immuttable file marker at the end of the drive. It
seemed to serve no purpose (that I could see) except to make 3rd party
partitioning tools break and die. FIPS could not handle it. I think the
newest FIPS (v 2.x ?) can. Find it on Freshmeat and double check. Also,
the version of Partition Magic that shipped with Caldera could move that
marker. All retail version after some point could do it as well.

Of course you "could" fdisk the drive and get rid of the "virus"
completely ;)



JimK


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ganesh Rajamani wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I am trying to partition my hard drive using FIPS and I get the following
> error --
> 
> Error: Last cylinder is not free
> 
> Since the new partition is created at the end of the old one and
> contains at least one cylinder, the partition can not be split if
> not at least the very last cylinder is completely free.
> Probably there is a hidden file like 'image.idx' or 'mirorsav.fil'
> in the last cylinder - see the doc.
> 
> 
> I dont have any hidden file *.idx or *.fil. Any one been there?
> 
> For the Gurus here is the log of FIPS.
>  <<FIPSINFO.DBG>> 
> 
> Ganesh Rajamani
> Custom Group
> 603-669-8552 X 511
> 
> 

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