On 5/21/06, John Hebert <johnahebert at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Questions: > 1) Does the Microsoft Windows 'format' command simply > wipe out the partition table? Or does it do more than > that? What exactly? > 2) I believe that the Microsoft Windows 'delete' > command simply removes a file's listing in the FAT. Is > this correct? If not, what does happen? > 3) How would one go about rebuilding a FAT32 > partition? Are there open source apps that will do > that? > 4) Is the FAT required in order to retrieve an entire > file? I think so, but I'm not sure.
Get your hands on a copy of this book: http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0321268172 I have a copy, but in the middle of reading currently. If you want to eyeball it sometime let me know. Shannon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20060521/05edc0b4/attachment.htm
