Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:16:31 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Szakacsits Szabolcs <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Andrew Clausen wrote: > > Good question. From 98 up, Windows supports both LBA and CHS. I'm not > sure about XP/2003.
I don't think it changed. CHS support is needed for backward compatibility during boot. This is why it would be important not to screw it, if it's indeed matter in the partition table. Some reading how NT gets/uses drive geometry,
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=98080
> The real question is: what is the default install? How many users have > each?
Google Zeitgeist says for september at http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/sep03_pie.gif
XP 38% 98 29% 2000 20% NT 3% 95 1%
XP is growing 1-2% each month at the expense of Win9x (see http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist//{...,jun,jul,aug}03_pie.gif)
The majority of NT based uses NTFS. NTFS has its own $Boot file fixed at sector 0, that is it's the boot sector. I don't know how much it's different from the one booting from FAT but I guess not much (except of understanding NTFS instead of FAT during boot, etc). Szaka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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