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Article #477Re: Can't read last cluster on drive?
From: Jeremy Brooks
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:00
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Tarkan Yetiser wrote in message ... >In article <36c4cbf1.1157420@news.mindspring.com>, rgreen@avana.net >says... >> FDISK calls int 13 ah = 8 (or the equivalent extended function if for >> LBA) before it fills in the partition table, so it would seem to be >> most likely a bug in some version of FDISK. I'll have to keep an eye >> out for that one. > >FDISK is quite buggy actually. Have you ever seen it report 120% usage >for a partition? Just create a non-DOS partition at the front of the >disk, and see what happens;-) Hee hee. FDISK is THE crappest program I have ever used. The interface is like a first school readln/writeln exercise program. Nearly as bad as EDLIN. Remember that one? :-( Jem p.s. anyone know what FDISK error 120 is? TIA
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