[honold]

Mercutio, on Mar 9 2004, 07:56 PM, said:

I don't normally post on SR, but I tried it and it appears to work.

i don't normally go to mcdonald's, but make sure to go there this weekend! i'll be selling my own food in the parking lot.

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i don't normally go to mcdonald's, but make sure to go there this weekend! i'll be selling my own food in the parking lot.

Ronald might get postal on you.

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Nice board you guys have... Like the atmosphere, and you've been real helpful on a problem I had. The comedic value at times is just a bonus.

[WinCC]

I have a feeling that some sort of compressing is used, it would be interesting to see a full compressed disk being cloned by ghost to a new target .

[Sivar]

shoemakc, on Mar 9 2004, 05:17 PM, said:

Yep, you can basicly make partition tables say anything you want.

This is a post on Slashdot from a person claiming to be a Ghost developer:

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I'm a Ghost developer.

This is just a method of corrupting your partition table so the same disk sectors appear more than once. If you try this, don't ask Symantec for help afterwards.

By the way rfarris, apparently I used your example in a post on that same sight. I hadn't even read this thread until the /. article reminded me of this topic, but you posted it first, so you can keep the copyright.

[ddrueding]

Conrats Sivar on the first "5" post on a slashdot article! You 'da man!

[Mercutio]

honold, on Mar 9 2004, 11:16 PM, said:

Mercutio, on Mar 9 2004, 07:56 PM, said:

I don't normally post on SR, but I tried it and it appears to work.

i don't normally go to mcdonald's, but make sure to go there this weekend! i'll be selling my own food in the parking lot.

Did you actually read what I wrote on SF, honold? Let me re-iterate for you:

Unlike 99% of the people who are talking about this, I have actually tried it. I used a 20GB drive. It turned into a "30GB" drive. My initial disk load was around 90% of the capacity of the 20GB drive, and when I was done, I loaded ~10GB of AVIs.

I played the AVIs (which are sensitive to data corruption), booted the drive, played some games, and played the AVIs some more.

If data is being corrupted, I haven't encountered any errors from it yet. That doesn't mean I don't believe it isn't happening, just that I have yet to find any evidence of it.

Someone with a 500MB drive with Windows 98 loaded on it would have a much better chance of finding said corruption.

While I'm at it: it takes about 10 minutes to ghost a working windows install, about a minute to boot up, 15 seconds to start ghost, 15 more seconds to switch the drives, another minute to boot again, and maybe a minute to start disk management and check the drive capacity. You guys who have some old, crappy disk laying around can try it for yourself in about 15 minutes. That's what I did.

[casa]

WinCC, on Mar 10 2004, 03:31 AM, said:

I have a feeling that some sort of compressing is used, it would be interesting to see a full compressed disk being cloned by ghost to a new target .

Yepp, I've checked it to be 5:2 compression on
ANY randomized data ; )

/casa

[Big Buck Hunter]

This is simply futzing around with the partition table. No extra space gained. Long gone are the days of getting 10% more space magically by adjusting the drives interleave with spinrite.

Thank you for your time,
Frank Russo

[rfarris]

Sivar, on Mar 10 2004, 03:33 AM, said:

By the way rfarris, apparently I used your example in a post on that same sight. I hadn't even read this thread until the /. article reminded me of this topic, but you posted it first, so you can keep the copyright.

I have an example? You mean the areal density thing?

-- Rick