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PC Hacks: Fix The Master Boot Record On FAT Partitions
White Papers FDISK is a DOS program that can actually help one out of some of those nasty "Unable to locate operating system" and "No boot drive available" error conditions Windows 9x and DOS users encounter from time to time.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment Hence Vista must be on the first partition and installed subsequent to XP on the second partition, and quite possibly other OS's on further partitions. It is important to create the partitions first using apprporiate software in order to install...
[June 18, 2008, 9:26]
Active Partition Recovery For Windows
Downloads Active Partition Recovery for Windows will help you if non-system partition is lost--you can boot Windows, install and run the software from under Windows Operating System to recover deleted or damaged partitions located on data volumes (D:, E...
[January 5, 2008, 6:46]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the disk, and both Vista and Ubuntu booted correctly, but when I tried to boot the XP partition, it actually started to boot Vista but then complained that the boot...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
Quad-Boot Fun, And A Correction
Blog I put openSuSE in its own partition, and the boot procedure recognized and configured the Ubuntu (and XP) partitions correctly. I then created multiple partitions within that extended partitions for Linux.
[July 2, 2008, 13:41]
Licence Nearly Up On Apple's Boot Camp Beta
News However, she added that the Boot Camp Assistant software, which helps set up and manage Windows partitions, will not work after the beta period ends. The ability to create and manage partitions is important," said Current Analysis research director...
[April 11, 2007, 8:49]
Questions Raised About Win 2000 File System
News Installing Windows 2000 to dual boot with Windows NT 4.0 will permanently and irrevocably change all NTFS partitions so that Windows NT 4.0 is no longer able to check for or repair file system problems," Navas said.
[November 25, 1999, 12:08]
Dual-Boot Ubuntu And Windows XP Professional
Blog Now that I know a little better what I am doing, I would say that resizing and moving partitions on an existing disk is not the best way to do this. When you create partitions with gparted, you can choose between Primary and Extended partitions.
[June 13, 2008, 10:30]
Dual Boot To Support Desktops
News When it's time to partition the disk, I chose the default option to Remove All Linux Partitions On This System since I had no Linux partitions (see Figure A).Figure AChoose an automatic partitioning option.
[May 22, 2002, 11:05]
Linux On A Pentium III - The Adventure
News Some people may want larger Windows partitions, but if you make Windows too large you run the risk of not being able to use lilo, the Linux boot loader. Unless you have Linux Kernel version 2.2.0 or higher and fdisk v2.9i or later, you'll get...
[May 18, 1999, 8:25]
Ubuntu On Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog If the Ubuntu installation procedure detects Windows partitions on the disk, it offers to preserve that partition, and install Ubuntu in the remaining space. If that works, I could even consider setting up the S6510 with three partitions, for...
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
Drive Genius
Downloads It can be used to initialize drives, create and delete partitions, and erases them securely as per Department of Defense s standard. Drive Genius can also hide partitions and duplicate volumes or drives swiftly.
[June 11, 2008, 1:31]
Active@ Boot Disk
Downloads You can use it to boot up any computer, recover your lost data, reset Windows passwords, make computer system backups, securely erase data, control disk condition, manage partitions and much more. Active Boot Disk (Win Edition) is a bootable Live...
[August 30, 2008, 6:16]
PC Inspector File Recovery
Downloads Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system). PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
[April 1, 2005, 14:01]
Paragon Partition Manager Server Edition
Downloads It provides a full range of features that meet your specific partitioning needs, whatever they may be: resizing partitions without data loss, copying partitions to a spare disk, solving boot problems, rescue partitions and recovery, or other...
[March 13, 2008, 17:16]
Ranish Partition Manager
Downloads Ranish Partition Manager is designed to create, delete, and resize partitions without losing the data on them. It formats FAT-16 and FAT-32 partitions. It also allows you to copy partitions and clone disks.
[February 7, 2007, 22:41]
BootIt Next Generation
Downloads Partitioning tools include non-destructive resizing, converting, creating, copying, moving, and deleting of partitions. A partition and multi boot manager with a powerful and simple to use set of tools to quickly partition, image, or multi boot...
[September 16, 2008, 13:00]
Omni-Boot
Downloads Omni-Boot manages NTFS partitions, includes system management utilities. Omni-Boot has the following features: automatic unattended Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP installations from DOS or Windows without any user intervention, automatic...
[February 10, 2004, 0:01]
Partition Zapper
Downloads Deletes Hard Drive Partitions When FDISK Won't.Partition Zapper is a free program that solves the infamous Partitions exist but they don't exist problem caused by Microsoft FDISK. Partition Zapper removes all partitions from a PC hard drive...
[November 10, 2006, 22:16]
Microsoft Wins Final FAT Battle
Talkback There are FAT drivers in the Linux kernel, so that you can read hard disk partitions that are formatted in FAT. When those FAT drivers are removed from the Linux kernel, nothing is wrong (except that you won't be able to read FAT partitions anymore).
[January 12, 2006, 13:54]
