zsteir Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Hi all, Excuse the newbie question... I'm having trouble copying the tiger-x86-flat.img to my new partition. I create some free space at the end of the drive using partition magic (which is not under any extended partition, just completely free). I used diskpart to create a partition using "create partition primary size=6660 id=af" and the output seems to be ok: Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 6829 MB 32 KB Partition 2 Extended 42 GB 6829 MB Partition 3 Logical 3005 MB 6829 MB Partition 4 Logical 39 GB 10 GB * Partition 5 Unknown 6667 MB 49 GB HOWEVER, when I try to use dd to copy the image over, I get the following error: E:\>dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition5 bs=512 skip=63 rawwrite dd for windows version 0.3. Written by John Newbigin <jn@it.swin.edu.au> This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details Error native opening file: 0 The operation completed successfully When I run "dd --list", I do not even see the new partition. I get this (omitting some irrelevant stuff): NT Block Device Objects \\?\Device\CdRom0 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk0\DR0 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume1 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume7 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition3 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume3 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition4 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume4 Since dd works if I try to copy the image anywhere else, I believe that the problem is that dd somehow doesn't recognize \\?\Device\Harddisk\Partition5... but how do I make that happen? many thanks, zstier Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3893-diskpart-and-dd-list-do-not-match/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc_guru Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 ...I create some free space at the end of the drive using partition magic (which is not under any extended partition, just completely free). I used diskpart to create a partition using "create partition primary size=6660 id=af"... Let me understand it, you did resize your current HD (with the only one partition needed for Win XP), doing this of 6 GB (aprox.) and leave it the rest as "unallocated space", isn't it?. Then you did use diskpart (the only one that is inside Win XP), for to create that new partition (af type), Right ?. But when you use dd this shows you that message, ok ?. Please, clear it to me in order i can understand it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3893-diskpart-and-dd-list-do-not-match/#findComment-24983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zsteir Posted October 29, 2005 Author Share Posted October 29, 2005 Let me understand it, you did resize your current HD (with the only one partition needed for Win XP), doing this of 6 GB (aprox.) and leave it the rest as "unallocated space", isn't it?. Then you did use diskpart (the only one that is inside Win XP), for to create that new partition (af type), Right ?. But when you use dd this shows you that message, ok ?. Please, clear it to me in order i can understand it. Yes, you are absolutely correct. However, my windows installation spans three partitions (one primary, and two logical), which may better explain the detail of the DISKPART> list partition (included above). In other words, in the output above, partitition1, partition2, partition3, and partition4 are all reserved for windows. I created completely free space at the end of the drive and used DISKPART to create partition5, which shows up properly in the DISKPART output, but not with dd --list. Thanks for your help. zsteir Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3893-diskpart-and-dd-list-do-not-match/#findComment-24999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc_guru Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Yes, you are absolutely correct. However, my windows installation spans three partitions (one primary, and two logical), which may better explain the detail of the DISKPART> list partition (included above). In other words, in the output above, partitition1, partition2, partition3, and partition4 are all reserved for windows. I created completely free space at the end of the drive and used DISKPART to create partition5, which shows up properly in the DISKPART output, but not with dd --list. Thanks for your help. zsteir Where you did copy the tiger image ? (in first windows partition or in the second) and what kind of partition they are (FAT32 or NTFS) ?. Another question, this's really important, after that you did create the af partition with diskpart, did you active it ?. My pleasure in to help you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3893-diskpart-and-dd-list-do-not-match/#findComment-25010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Active should only matter if you want it to be directly bootable. Now making sure its not hidden, that's a different story. Get partition magic. Its not hard to find. If you found OS X, you have the resources to find partition magic. But dd-ing needs a free DRIVE, not partition. If you aren't careful, you will fubar the whole drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3893-diskpart-and-dd-list-do-not-match/#findComment-25057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zsteir Posted October 29, 2005 Author Share Posted October 29, 2005 Active should only matter if you want it to be directly bootable. Now making sure its not hidden, that's a different story. Get partition magic. Its not hard to find. If you found OS X, you have the resources to find partition magic. But dd-ing needs a free DRIVE, not partition. If you aren't careful, you will fubar the whole drive. The parition is not active, but it is also not hidden. The free space was created with partition magic, and the partition itself (of type AF) was created with diskpart. I've read of many who have used this method (dispart + dd) to copy the image onto a partition, so I imagine it can be done. However, I do take your advice, if no clear solution becomes available, I will certainly not mess around enough to destory my drive! Where you did copy the tiger image ? (in first windows partition or in the second) and what kind of partition they are (FAT32 or NTFS) ?. Another question, this's really important, after that you did create the af partition with diskpart, did you active it ?. My pleasure in to help you. The image is on my 3rd partition (the E: drive), which is NTFS. The partition is not active, however. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3893-diskpart-and-dd-list-do-not-match/#findComment-25073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc_guru Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 The image is on my 3rd partition (the E: drive), which is NTFS. The partition is not active, however. You need to active the af partition in order to get booting (at least this is what i've seen in several documments and tutorials). Read this tutorial/guide and you'll understand it, click here!. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3893-diskpart-and-dd-list-do-not-match/#findComment-25155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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