Ahh, very good. Time for a blog entry somewhere... -sc
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 1:00 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Copying a Windows partition made difficult > > Success! > > I'll write the details up in full later, but the short(ish) version is: > > The "hidden sectors" field of the NTFS Partition Boot Record actually > appears to be used by the NT bootstrap to locate the partition. If I change > this field to contain the LBA of the first sector of the partition, my > old/copied/broken partition becomes my old/copied/WORKING partition. > > Since Win XP lives in the second partition on my disk, and I made the first > partition bigger on my new disk, the starting LBA of the XP partition changed. > The "hidden sectors" field was now pointing into the middle of a Linux > partition. > > Microsoft's documentation states this field is "Not used or checked by > NTFS". Which, I guess, technically speaking, is true. The bootstrap is not > NTFS. But Windows won't boot if this field is wrong, so they *might* have > mentioned that. Grrr. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
