Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:36:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? Message-ID: <201207222036.q6MKaNPT025871@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <500C0B21.3020001@cran.org.uk>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jul 22 09:19:24 2012 > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:16:01 +0100 > From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> > To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? > > On 22/07/2012 11:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Needless to say, that approach doesn't work under Windows. <grin> > > 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can just > write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 . I've never seen a Windows installation that _came_with_ cgwin, or an 'average' Windows user that was capable of (a) findingit, (b) comprehending -what- it was, (c) downloading it, (d) installing it, or (e) figuring out how to -use- it.. Aside from those 'minor' difficulties, it's a viable solution.
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