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

[Tom Freeman]

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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