Acronis os selector 8.0 User Manual

 

 

 

This appendix describes the fine points of using the Disk Administrator 
together with the following software: 

Many operating systems like MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME, 
OS/2 and many UNIX versions have in their packages programs that are 
usually called FDISK. They are provided for partitioning the hard disk. Many 
of these programs have limitations that cause them either to work incorrectly 
or not work at all in the following areas: 

•  Partitions located beyond cylinder 1024 and extended BIOS installed on 

the computer are unsupported by FDISK. In this case FDISK might not 
list all the partitions and report errors in partition structure. 

•  Partitions located beyond the geometry that are given by function 8 of 

Int 13h if extended BIOS is not installed on the computer. In this case 
FDISK may either refuse to run or report errors in partition structure.  

•  Primary partitions that are located between two logical ones. In this case 

FDISK may report either extra free spaces or overlapped partitions. 

If you have installed Disk Administrator, you will not need to use programs 
like FDISK. 

Some programs from the Norton Utilities package, mainly Norton Disk 
Doctor, may report partition structure errors, for example invalid logical 
partition parameters or partitions that cannot be accessed. You should ignore 
these messages and deny attempts to fix the error since Norton Disk Doctor 
may damage the partition structure. 

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