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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 15.01.2023, 18:37

> Thanks for this explanation. Would it be possible to add a "d) delete" text
> to make this easier to see as it is not self explaining. Thx.
 I changed the menu slightly to hopefully make it clearer, but it is only an interim solution until I had time to streamline the interface a little bit more. But at the moment I am concentrating on the more technical items. I will update the inferface when the software is stable enough to call it beta.

> One more thing that I just noticed:
> I changed the extended partition (number 4 of first GUI) where 4 logical
> volumes were inside to FAT32-LBA and saved it. There was NO warning that
> these volumes will go to hell which is very dangerous.
> When I go to this new FAT32-LBA and press ENTER I also get an interrupt
> divide by zero (machine was booted before).
 Both problems should be fixed. I uploaded version 2.90.09.

> But sometimes you want to delete everything (making the HD a "virgin",
> means: even MBR should disappear). Is there a way to do this with ranish?
 At the moment there is no way to fill the first sector completely with 0. The partition table may be zeroed out but the boot code is not touched.

All other sectors beside the MBR may be deleted with a trick: delete all partitions and create a new one, make sure partition starts at sector 2 and spans the whole disk, then erase the partition content.

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