Hi David, > Second issue: > Clone a windows disk to another. > With _different_ geometry (that is sector and head count).
You'll have a hard time finding a HD that does report a different head count than 16 (if you don't force it to report e.g. 15 for stone-age compatibility)... Once again, somewhen back in time, those arguments have been valid, but for any disk over 8GB, it's very unlikely to happen. Ever since LBA mode was widely used, CHS mapping hasn't been much of a concern anymore. Even BIOS uses LBA internally if you don't force it to use CHS. Translation from LBA to CHS is done *inside the drive* so it doesn't matter at all. If you clone hda2 to hda3, the resulting complaints can be fixed with a simple run of chkdsk. Best regards, Andre David Balazic schrieb: > Hi! > > The first (and partly the second) issue is described here by Anton > Altaparmakov (_THE_ ntfs guru) here : > http://forum.linux-ntfs.org/viewtopic.php?p=545 > and here: > http://forum.linux-ntfs.org/viewtopic.php?t=76 > (I could not find the web page I mentioned in my first post). > > > Also it can be easily checked by anyone: > have a Windows system like this: > hda1 - windows boot&system > hda2 - ntfs data partition > hda3 - ntfs empty partition > > copy hda2 to hda3 (cp, cat, m4u, as you like) > boot windows, see it complaining about hda3 not being good. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
