[Discussion] eCS on Large Disk

[Ira N. Saxe]

>From: Carl Gehr <Carl.Gehr at MCGCG.Com>
>Date: 2008/04/04 Fri PM 05:23:33 CDT
>To: POSSI Discussion List <discussion at lists.possi.org>
>Subject: Re: [Discussion] eCS on Large Disk

>On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:04:05 -0600, Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>
>>I really think your problem may be related to the location of boot 
>>manager.  Primary partitions cannot be located after logical partitions 
>>and boot manager should be a primary partition.  Can you get it to the 
>>front of the disk using DFSee?  Move the Dell utility to the wasted 
>>space and put boot manager into a minimal primary partition in that free 
>>space.  You should be able to define the Dell utility as a primary 
>>partition and make it bootable from boot manager (I do this with the 
>>Thinkpad recovery partition).  I would also shrink the Windows partition 
>>down to some reasonable size (50 Gb?).  What version of Windows?  If 
>>Vista, good luck.
>
>I really hesitate to disagree with Chuck; he's more of an expert that
>I.  BUT going back to Warp3, I have always had four primaries arranged
>as follows and shown by DFSee:
>>                                                                                
>>  <disk  1>  </dev/hda   >  <T60 100GB SATA>                                    
>>                                                                                
>>                                                                                
>> m  1       2       3     4     5       6       7            7       8   9      
>> b          C:      D:    E:    F:      G:                   O:                 
>> r  NTFS    HPFS    HPFS  FAT   HPFS    HPFS    FreeSpace L  HPFS    BM  FAT32  
>>                                                                                
>>                                                                                
>>                                                                                
>>
>The 'freespace' is actually in the extended partition.
>
>I have never had an issue with this approach.
>
>Honestly, although the message sounds like it is objecting about 'too
>large' I wonder if your 1.3GB is possibly too small.
>
>Carl
>
Carl and Chuck, thanks for your recommendations.  I've forwarded them to DFSee support and will abide by their (his) decision.  Regards, Ira Saxe