On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:28:24PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > 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 ,,, > 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.
True as this might be, it has the severe disadvantage of being stuck with DOS FDISK. Maybe it's just my ignorance on windows things but somehow DOS FDISK always managed to ruin my carefull layed out partitioning. Especially trying to change a partition table afterwards proved to be troublsome. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
