It happened to me with a 20 GB and 250 GB drive.
But hey, if you say it doesn't matter, then it doesn' matter.
Why spending time adding 4 lines to the FAQ, when you can add 200 to the mail
list ...
David
________________________________
From: Andre Tertling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 24-Sep-07 10:52
To: David Balazic
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [g4u-help] FAQ: Bogus info about Windows and NTFS support
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.
>
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