Confused About 4 Partition Limit?

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jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2 DeleteThis @houston.rr.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote
>> jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2 DeleteThis @houston.rr.com> wrote

>>> I have three "real" primary partitions on my C: drive.
>>> But, there's also some free space. This free space is
>>> also identified as a "primary" partition, when in fact it's
>>> not a partition at all -- it's simply unused space.

>> Just a quirk of whatever is displaying the partitions.

> Thanks.

> I've looked at them in two different programs
> and both identify the unused space as primary.

fdisk doesnt.

> Is there a utility that lets me view what you call the "partition table?"

The old dos norton's diskedit will, and allows you to edit it too.

Plenty should turn up using google and "partition table"
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On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:49:10 -0500, jim evans
<jimsTAKEOUTnews2.DeleteThis@houston.rr.com> wrote:

>I've looked at them in two different programs and both identify the
>unused space as primary.
>
>Is there a utility that lets me view what you call the "partition
>table?"
>
>-- jim

Jim,

If you are running Windows XP you can find DskProbe.exe on the setup
CD in the Support\Tools directory. DiskProbe will allow you to view
the hard disk at the sector level and understands the layout of the
partition table and boot records to allow viewing their individual
fields.

John Hensley
www.resqware.com
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In article <5q8p43hus4l5rkg357vveadq2kjk9khi2r.RemoveThis@4ax.com>, Jim evans
wrote:
> Is there a utility that lets me view what you call the "partition
> table?"
>
Use a disk editor to read (IIRC) the second 512-byte sector of the
disk. It's been a long time since I did it "by hand", but with the
assistance of one of the early chapters of the "Pink Shirt Book", the
partition table in a PC-ocmpatible hard drive is perfectly
comprehensible. Don't ask me what the format of the data is - that's
what reference books are for and I've loaned my Pink Shirt to
PeetThePervert - but it's perfectly comprehensible.

--
Aidan Karley
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:49 +0100, but posted later.
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