Re: Can't read last cluster on drive?

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From: David Harley
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:00

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Tarkan Yetiser (tark@vds.net) wrote:

: Due to an inconsistency in the BPB. For example, if you take an image of 
: an 8 gig drive, storing only the used clusters, and then splat that onto 
: a 6 gig drive (it'll fit if data was less than that), and forget to 
: update the BPB properly, SCANDISK will go bananas trying to access the 
: last cluster. 

Yes, I suspect that all the machines I've seen this problem on were
Ghosted: a disparity between the target disk size and the original
image could certainly be the cause, in this case.

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David Harley
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