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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2003-07-11 15:22:37
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > I have an idea what it could be: the backup boot sector. This indeed sounds a very good idea! However Barry wrote it's a fresh W2K install. It has 512 bytes cluster sizes so probably it was upgraded from a FAT. Barry, could you please do this to see what data is at that location? dd if=device of=cluster.out bs=512 skip=19542568 count=1 If 'od -c cluster.out | head -1' gives something like this 0000000 353 R 220 N T F S \0 002 001 \0 \0 then it's the backup boot sector :) > Szaka I would suggest that you update ntfsresize to detect this case. You If this is the case, of course I'll support it. I'd be quite surprised because from the several 10 thousands users so far nobody met with this situation ... or at least didn't report it. Credit would go to Barry :) > Alternatively the volume has been grown to fill the disk with some strange > ntfsresizer when the machine was factory installed which is so old that it > creates an NT 3.51 NTFS boot sector... This sounds a good explanation also. Cheers, Szaka |
