No telling, I don't think it's exactly documented or that M$ ever followed their documents. I've had a few similar partition problems without NTFS, one just yesterday.
Yesterday, someone gave me a USB stick with a weird fat32 partition. It refused to even mount and cfdisk would not touch it. fdisk noted that it had different "virtual" and "physical" endings. I left it alone and gave it back. Previously, I'd had problems repartitioning a fat formated SD card. It had the same mysterious size problems and would not let me write to the first few bytes. fdisk dully eliminated the offending partition and I was able to convert it to ext2, but this is not what you want to do. When I encounter problems like this that I can't overcome, I return the piece of junk. That's probably not practical advice for you right now, but you can threaten such a thing unless the vendor has a solution for you. It's too bad you have to put the images on each machine. While the software is obviously less reliable than the hardware, you are still stuck with hardware failure wiping out the image. The non free and machine specific nature of XP has also multiplied your troubles by each computer. It's easier to have a repository of images that work with multiple machines, but XP's registry and copy protection schemes defeat this. Oh well, good luck with it. On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:58 am, Tim Hallin wrote: > On the new HPs nothing works, including > Partition Manager, they all give me the "Cluster 1" error. Did they change > the "Mighty" NTFS files system ? >
