When GHO is fast partitioning, careful partitioning is completely deleted (1)

As a technician in the IT store, I think some friends may have noticed that a small GHO file is attached to various GHO mirror disks. That is to quickly allocate the hard disk to four pre-spaced partitions. This file greatly facilitates our installation process.

Usually these files are assigned to four partitions, and there are also GHO files with five partitions. After completing the one-key four-zone with the Ghost program, the hard disk got four partitions like this: WINXP, SOFTWARE, MEDIA, and BACKUP. The hidden danger that I said was that the root cause was buried at this time.

The hidden danger is like a mine. When you have finished installing the system, even after the customer has been using the computer for a long time, the mine may be triggered at any time. Let's take a look at this familiar picture. : WindowsXP Disk Management. (The virtual machine just used the Rainforest 9.9 partition and installed the XPSP3 system)

Here you can see the four partitions normally, but please note that the last partition is marked as "BACKUP"; The disk is "delete" operation, then the BACKUP disk will also delete the third partition "MEDIA". This is not a joke.

The phenomenon that the last two partitions disappear at the same time does not occur only during the partition delete operation. It may be triggered by any unknown disk modification action, which may be partition formatting or adjustment. Partition capacity, or install an adjustment partition in the one-click restore process. Or in the process of defragmenting the user disk, it can lead to such lightning.

This is the phenomenon. When you see the partition mark on your hard disk in the "My Computer" or computer management, the hidden danger of this partition is likely to lie in yours. In the PC. Don't assume that you have modified the name of the partition to be able to sit back and relax. Although the partitions look normal, you can even format them independently, but when the space is running out, the hidden dangers will eventually be triggered.

You need tools to troubleshoot the pitfalls. This process is safe and fast. There are several methods and software to accomplish the task of repairing hidden dangers:

Method 1, PQ Magic partition software included with various Ghost installation CDs, after booting PQ through CD boot, it will Quickly identify the error message of the partition and ask you to perform the repair operation. Just like this prompt, it will appear more than 4 times. After the repair, PQ Magic can enter the main operation interface correctly. Note the message in the figure: The value of CHS has been confirmed to be correct and the value of LBA can be corrected.

But if you deny PQMagic's operation, you will end up with such a picture, PQ won't let you do it:

Method 2, for friends who don't have an optical drive, you can download a Windows version of PQ, such as NortonPM, or PowerQuest PM, when both are installed into Windows to start it. You can see the same prompt and fix it as prompted.

Your denial operation will also cause the program to abort:

For the ParagonPartitionManager software, it does not prompt for the error message as described at startup.

PPM software can operate on disks like PQ software. As long as you perform some partition modification operations, PPM will automatically fix errors during the operation of the application, such as the size of the last partition. Make some adjustments (can be reduced a little, after application, then expand back).

Method 3, use the disk management tool that comes with Windows to fix it. Before doing this, you need to be clear. There is no important data to keep in the two partitions of your countdown. The repair process is to activate the hidden danger of the partition. Right click on the last partition block and select “delete” And then confirm that you will immediately see that the two partitions of the countdown will disappear.

Note, here I want to emphasize the "two divisions of the countdown" keyword. In the illustration, I listed four partitions, and some GHOs may be divided into 3, 5 or even more partition GHO files that you can easily prepare for yourself. This "mine" should only involve two partitions of the countdown.

I have verified this hidden danger by checking Rainforest Woodwind 9.9, Deep XP, Special Edition of Computer Company, Radish Home, Beyond XP, and the fast partition GHO in these popular pirated system CDs. At the same time, I also verified that the original XP is installed on a brand new machine. After the normal partition, the Ghost copy of the multi-machine hard disk is used. Even though the same brand, batch, and size of the same hard disk (500G string), this will still be included. Class partition error message. Of course, I connected the CD-ROM directly to the PQ and quickly fixed it.

The GHO image fast partition described above and the Ghost hard disk have incorrect partition information after copying. It can be quickly fixed by the above method, and will not have any impact on the installed system. At the same time, it will solve some intractable diseases. The most effective one is to restore the F11 hidden partition class to the hard disk. It is found that many one-key restores cannot be installed, precisely because the installer can not get the correct partition information, resulting in Installation failed or destroyed the normal system (lightning).