If I set "Starting Disk Sector" to "0" will it corrupt my notebook's C: drive?

[Nigel-26]

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Hi all,

I’ve just installed iometer on my laptop and would like to play with it on my C: drive (Win XP boot\system drive) but am afraid that if I set the "Starting Disk Sector" to “0” it may overwrite that sector & corrupt notebook’s C: drive.

1)      If I set the "Starting Disk Sector" to “0” will it skip used sectors and just use the 1^st empty one?

2)      Is it ok to run iometer on your working C: drive (ie Windows XP’s boot\system drive) ?

 

Thanks

Nigel

 

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[Joe Eiler-2]

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You can run iometer against a filesystem (as opposed to the raw disk) and it will use an iobw.tst file.

 

Joe

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Subject: [Iometer-user] If I set "Starting Disk Sector" to "0" will itcorrupt my notebook's C: drive?

Hi all,

I’ve just installed iometer on my laptop and would like to play with it on my C: drive (Win XP boot\system drive) but am afraid that if I set the "Starting Disk Sector" to “0” it may overwrite that sector & corrupt notebook’s C: drive.

1)      If I set the "Starting Disk Sector" to “0” will it skip used sectors and just use the 1^st empty one?

2)      Is it ok to run iometer on your working C: drive (ie Windows XP’s boot\system drive) ?

 

Thanks

Nigel

 

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