OK, the standalone CD boots, runs and sees an XP system fine. The XP doesn't have GPT partitioning, though, so still no real clue whether acronis understands it.
BTW: The WikiPedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table seems pretty good. It says that the MBR contains a pretend partition table (w/ one big partition, type 'ee'), which is also what sfdisk -T reports as 'EFI GPT'. DiskEdit hex display and sector address navigation looks mostly as expected -- a lot like the old PC-Tools/early Norton ..tools of the same name. Filesystem-specific tools seem limited, however. No neat ways to toggle between filesystem navigation and disk address browsing. No raw (hex) diretory display mode, although there is a FAT-folder viewmode which is probably not the same for NTFS, eh? Disk search *might* be a bit slow. It does not have a view-as-text or edit after find. I suppose you have to write down the absolute sector spec and then go back to the diskedit mode and "goto" that sector. Hmm, that still says read-only -- is the demo version crippled wrt/ edit mode? I find the diskeditor capabilities disappointing -- maybe it hasn't been updated in a long time? The partition tools *look* promising, but I haven't really done anything there. There is create/resize/copy/recover/split/merge. Some of these partition tools I tried looking at some first screens, but was scared to go much further. There was no reassuring "we won't change anything without a last-chance notification" message anywhere. There probably are the usual "are you sure" opportunities, but didn't feel like testing (on my guest's pc <heh>). I didn't see anything like a list of partition types -- maybe I just didn't get deep enough. If I get a chance -- tomorrow maybe -- I'll try setting up a play disk for some real playing. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
