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

Way back when, my partner Peter Brawley and I were batch-file virtuosos.
100-line batch files, no problem. I fondly recall those days when the
command line was king.


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Jim
>
> Some of it. You could do magic with piping and self generating batch
> files. PC Magazine had a monthly column with a lot of tricks.
> Today you would use PowerShell or similar.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> >>> accessd at shaw.ca 10-08-13 18:57 >>>
> Hi Gustav:
>
> You remember that stuff? ;-)
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 1:47:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [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
> >
> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> > Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [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
>
>
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