[dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD

Hi Mark

The show moves on.

But we see some progress. I remember when we at a DOS prompt opened Debug and then typed the magic g=c800:5 and it took a while to low-level format a 20 MB MFM harddisk.

Debug and Edlin (the command line text editor which could do real magic) are now gone.

/gustav


>>> marklbreen at gmail.com 10-08-13 10:16 >>>
Hi Gustav,

I have played with a utility named GParted which was quite good.

I also used it to assist me in partitioning a 3TB drive in Windows 2012 -
this was not easy the first time I did it.  Windows does not like
partitions above 2TB.  However, with careful sequencing of the preparation
of the drive, you can make it work.

When we broke the 2GB drive barrier 10 years ago, I thought it would be the
last time.  Seems it is back again.

Mark




On 9 August 2013 17:35, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I moved the drive to the ThinkStation, booted with the Hyper-V install cd,
> and reformatted the drive at the full size of ~64 GB.
>
> Then I shut the machine down, reconnected all drives and booted. Now the
> Kingston SSD showed up with the correct partitions.
> Problem solved.
>
> /gustav
>
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
> Sendt: 9. august 2013 13:20
> Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Emne: [dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD
>
> Hi all
>
> My Kingston SSDNow 64 GB SSD once was restored using Windows Restore in
> Hyper-V with a partition of 15 GB.
>
> It was then mounted in my ThinkStation with Win7 which, of course, could see
> that partition.
> However, it could not erase that partion to create a new of the full
> capacity of the drive, ~64 GB.
>
> So I moved the drive to first one (with Hyper-V Server), then another
> machine (with Win8) and both could create and view a partion of ~64 GB.
>
> However, when I move the drive back to the ThinkStation, it still believes
> the old 15 GB partion is there.
> How can I tell the ThinkStation to refresh the partion information?
>
> /gustav