Partition Table View

The partition table view is arranged as follows:

• Sector indicates at which sector on the actual drive you currently are.
• Valid or invalid partition table tells you whether the current data area is indeed a partition table.
• The partition table has room for four entries (from Partition 1 to Partition 4). Entry No states the number of the partition.
• System displays the file system type (e.g. FAT 16/32, NTFS) of the partitions on your drive.
  Note: Sometimes System shows an entry (e.g. Linux) in an invalid partition table. This happens when the entry in the present sector by chance is the same as the one for an identifier for a file system. You can have a look at these identifiers when you are in virtual write or read/write mode and click on the System entry in the partition table view.
• Boot states whether the partition is bootable or not.
• Starting and Ending mark the beginning resp. the ending of the partition, defined through the number of cylinders x heads x sectors.
• Relative Start Sector shows the beginning of the partition in LBA mode.
• Total Sectors displays the total number of sectors in the partition.
  Note: If the partition is bigger than 8GB the multiplication of cylinder x head x sector doesn't result in the correct number of total sectors, due to the binary length of the values. Total Sectors nevertheless will show the correct number of sectors.

The entries in the partition table view are displayed in hexadecimal format in the first row, and in decimal format in the second row.

When you are in Partition Table view and the current data area in not a valid partition table, the area will be marked 'Invalid' on the screen.

Double-clicking on a valid partition entry will move you to the sector this partition begins. See Navigation.

See also: View

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