W3 SSD Partitions and volume bitmap ??

Leonid
Leonid Member Posts: 121 Troubleshooter

I have upgraded to WIN 8.1 through the store download and 8.1 driver pkg. Everything is running fine.

I am trying to make a back up of my system on a local drive (DVD or flash). I installed Easeus Partition Master free version. It shows 7 partitions rather than the 5 in Diskmngt.

It says it can clone my SSD to a 32 GB flash drive. It performs a dskchk before doing the cloning, and DSKCHK  finds an error in the Volume bitmap and fails. If I do a dskchk from command line it does not show an error. I  think maybe the difference in the partitiions may show a problem. Any thoughts? Below is the Easeus report:

 

Partitions          File System      Capacity           Used           Unused          Status   Type
Disk 1 (GPT)                        
*                      Unallocated      1.00 MB        0 Bytes             1.00 MB        None     GPT
*: Recovery       NTFS             400.00 MB        206.64 MB       193.36 MB       None     GPT (Unused Partition)
*:ESP                FAT32            100.00 MB          50.37 MB        49.63 MB       None     GPT (EFI System Partition)
*:                    Other             128.00 MB        128.00 MB         0 Bytes        None     GPT (Reserved Partition)
C: Acer            NTFS                28.13 GB          15.59 GB         12.53 GB       Boot      GPT (Data Partition)
*:                    NTFS               350.00 MB        234.92 MB        15.08 MB       None     GPT (Unused Partition)
*                     Unallocated     1007.00 KB        0 Bytes         1007.00 KB       None     GPT
                       
Disk 1                       
Basic GPT                        
29.08 GB   

 

PS: I also installed Acronis 2014 True Image certified WIN 8.1 and it made a backup but is not booting.

Answers

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    I have never seen that many partitions on a drive before. Do know that some things do not allow access even for an admin unless you boot in Safe Mode.

     

    Am not sure what thrid party spftware picks up, I use DiskPart to get info.

     

    Below is a mildly expanded W3 with 32GB SSD with four partitions, 64GB SD card and a DVD running Win 8.1. The ESP partition contains the UEFI signatures and boot loader.

     

    diskpart32w3.jpg

  • Leonid
    Leonid Member Posts: 121 Troubleshooter

    I got the same diskpart report.

     

    DISKPART> list vol
    Uolume ###    Ltr    Label             Fs Type                   Size     Status      Info
    Uolume    0      C     Acer           NTFS Partition          28 GB    Healthy     Boot
    Uolume    1             Recovery    NTFS Partition         400 MB    Healthy    Hidden
    Uolume    2             ESP            FAT32 Partition        100 MB    Healthy    System
    Uolume    3                              NTFS Partition         350 MB    Healthy    Hidden
    DISKPART>

     

    When I went back and ran the Easeus software it specifically said the C:  Volume bitmap has errors.

    But when I run dskchk my self from command line it does not report any errors.

    Do you think the first and last 1MB of the disk being unallocated is by SSD design?

    Did you disk clean up to get rid of install leftovers?

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