Using the partview Utility for BrightStor Disaster Recovery Option

Overview

Partview is a command line utility used to view the hard disk partition information 
contained in a Machine Specific Floppy disk generated by the BrightStor Disaster Recovery 
(DR) Option.

This utility is supported on Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003.

Hard disk partition information for a Disaster Recovery-protected client machine is 
contained in a file called partinfo.ppp. This file is found on the Machine Specific Floppy 
disk created for the client machine using the Create Boot Kit Wizard as well as in the 
DR\"client machinename" folder under the BrightStor server home directory. The partview 
utility allows you to view this information.


Using the partview Utility

Usage:		partview {-client machinename|-file filename}
Options:
		-client machinename	view partition info for the named client
		-file filename		view partition info in the named file

Use the -file switch to specify a file on which to run the utility. This file should always 
be a partinfo.ppp file generated by DR.

Use the -client switch instead of the -file switch to run the utility on the partinfo.ppp 
file contained in the clientname folder under the DR folder under the BrightStor program 
folder. This switch works only when you run the utility on the BrightStor server used to 
back up the client.



Sample output:

Disk Number : 0
No. of Partitions : [12]
Signature : [0xC99EC99E]

 Partition      Size  Starting Offset             Partition Type  Bootable
 ---------  --------  ---------------  -------------------------  --------
         1   8001 MB             0 MB              PARTITION_IFS       YES
         0  30137 MB          8001 MB  PARTITION_XINT13_EXTENDED        NO
         0      0 MB             0 MB     PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED        NO
         0      0 MB             0 MB     PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED        NO
         2   6000 MB          8001 MB              PARTITION_IFS        NO
         0   8001 MB         14001 MB         PARTITION_EXTENDED        NO
         0      0 MB             0 MB     PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED        NO
         0      0 MB             0 MB     PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED        NO
         3   8001 MB         14001 MB            PARTITION_FAT32        NO
         0      0 MB             0 MB     PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED        NO
         0      0 MB             0 MB     PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED        NO
         0      0 MB             0 MB     PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED        NO



Output Explanation:

Disk Number	   -	The logical number assign by the operating system.
			The first hard disk sees by the system will be assigned the number 0, the
			second disk sees will be assigned the number 1, and so on.	
No. of Partitions  -	The total number of partitions being recorded in the partition table.
			This does not reflect the actual number of usable partition on the system.
Signature	   -	The signature of the hard disk.
Partition	   -	ID number assign to each usable partition starting at 1.
			0 means it is either an entended partition or non-existing partition.
Size		   -	The total size of the partition in mega byte.
Starting Offset	   -	The starting offset address of the partition on the disk arounded to MB.
Partition Type	   -	Here are the list of defined values
		Value 				Meaning 
		PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED 		Entry unused. 
		PARTITION_FAT_12 		Specifies a partition with 12-bit FAT entries. 
		PARTITION_XENIX_1 		Specifies a Xenix type 1 partition. 
		PARTITION_XENIX_2 		Specifies a Xenix type 2 partition. 
		PARTITION_FAT_16 		Specifies a partition with 16-bit FAT entries. 
		PARTITION_EXTENDED 		Specifies an extended partition entry. 
		PARTITION_HUGE 			Specifies an MS-DOS V4 huge partition. 
		PARTITION_IFS 			Specifies an IFS partition. 
		PARTITION_PREP 			Specifies a PowerPC Reference Platform partition. 
		PARTITION_UNIX 			Specifies a UNIX partition. 
		VALID_NTFT 			Specifies an NTFT partition. 
		PARTITION_XINT13 		Windows 95 and Windows 98: Specifies a partition that uses extended int13 services. 
		PARTITION_XINT13_EXTENDED 	Windows 95 and Windows 98: Same as PARTITION_EXTENDED, but uses extended int13 services. 

Bootable	   -	Is this a bootable partition.