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In article <welz2.8152$Ge3.32072890@news.itd.umich.edu>, Bruce P.
Burrell <bpb@umich.edu> writes
>In alt.comp.virus Kevin M <kevmit@flash.net> wrote:
>
>> Harry Broomhall wrote in message <7a1g6p$92a$1@quince.news.easynet.net>...
>>>  There *used* to be a system where drives had a 'spare' cylinder for
>>>various purposes.  This *could* be the source of this problem.
>
>
>> I think that would be the space used to reallocate bad clusters.
>
>   Different thing: that's extra sectors per track, not the extra cylinder at
>the end of the drive.  Unless things have changed, but I doubt it: seeking all
>the way to the end of the drive sounds prohibitive performance-wise.
>
>   -BPB
>
I didn't read the rest of this thread, but here's my four penneth
anyway: I know that certain disk imaging programs cause this problem. I
used to work for a company who used Ghost to pre-install Win95/98. When
Ghost copied the image to a drive (or partition) over 8GB, Scandisk
would report not being able to read the last cluster. An FDISK and
FORMAT resolved this. They used to split the drives into 2 partitions
until Ghost released a new version which fixed this bug.
-- 
Paul S Bulley
mailto:paul@rowlands-rise.demon.co.uk