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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 13.01.2023, 16:41

Thank you Fritz for documenting your findings! It will take some time for me to work through it.

Some general notes on using the software
1) Pressing "insert" only creates a partition of the type selected from the shown list. It does NOT format a partition.

2) Press "F" over a partition for formatting a FAT16 or FAT32 partition. The disk surface gets verified, therefore "verfying" is displayed. That takes a long time. You may skip verification by entering "/quick" as format argument.

3) Pressing "return" over a partition shows FILE SYSTEM information. If the partitions is not formatted that information contains GARBAGE.

Large disk support
Until now I only tested large disk support for disk up to 137GB, because my BIOS does not support larger disks. If using a 2TB disk or even larger there may be some edge cases that get triggered. I will setup a VM and try to reproduce your errors.

The boot loaders are not patched for LBA access yet. That means, they are not able to boot from partitions starting beyond the 8.4GB barrier. The simple IPL gets installed by default when not using part.exe in advanced boot manager mode.

Interface
The inferface is "complicated" to say at least, and it would benefit from a complete overhaul. Sadly, I can not accomplish that in a reasonable timeframe. In the code, there is no clear distinction between interface and partition logic. Therefore a major overhaul of the interface would nearly result in a complete rewrite.

But I will try to incorporate the "cosmetic" changes you mentioned.

Questions
1) Have you tried to format the created 2TB partition with the operating system supplied format utility?

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