On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jim Hartley wrote: > I recall a while back that the DOS and (I think Windoze) versions had a > built-in booby trap to prevent exactly what you propose. When you create > a partition entry with fdisk, it would not only write that, but would > then go and DELIBERATELY clobber some number of bytes at the beginning > of that partition. This was considered some sort of protection - against > what, I am not sure.
I hadn't heard of or experienced that thusfar. Reading the man page for fdisk does make DOS partitions sound a little quirky, and the quirks are DOS version dependent. > I don't know if Windoze fdisk still does that, but I bet it does. I > don't know what the Linux version of fdisk does, but I would check > before I tried it. At least with Linux it would be possible to delete > this "feecher" and re-compile. I know I've recovered both Windows and Linux partitions previously using this method with the "normal" Linux fdisk from the util-linux package. I've never tried to do this from any version of Windows fdisk [nor DOS], so I can't vouch for that. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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