On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:30:06PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > But nowadays I think that what's really needed is to take care that all > windows partitions have there first sector(s?) cleaned prior to letting > windows format those, as it seems that windows prefers the partitioning > information it finds in that(those) first sector(s) to the real partition > table, and what is worst, there is a bootstrap problem as windows format > prog assumes that info is valid and hence will use it unless it's cleared.
This is true. This is one reason why it is better to use DOS FDISK to create DOS/Windoze partitions - it wipes the first sector when you create the partition. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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