double the size of a harddisk?

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

I think maybe another of the letters suggested another likely cause--that 
Ghost was creating a fake partition within an existing one, and from the 
empty space on it, and adding it to the partition table.  The fact that it 
requires a specific version of Ghost--and without updates/patches--and the 
fact that it requires stopping in the middle of the process makes it likely 
that the phenomenon depends on some sort of bug.  So does the fact they 
report such large amounts of "regained space".

At 09:41 AM 3/17/04 -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote:

>The answer was in the Letters section, linked to the article under Update III:
>
>         "So this is old news :) Although the host-protected area (HPA) 
> can be used
>         for insidious purposes such as DRM/CPRM that is completely hidden 
> from the
>         users, most of the "invisible free space" exists for a purpose -- 
> either
>         it's spare sectors for bad sector remapping, or its capacity that 
> didn't
>         pass factory qualification, that you don't want to use anyway."
>
>cmr



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