Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:25:03 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdisk questions? Message-ID: <199604041025.LAA03334@tees> In-Reply-To: <501.828596857@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 4, 96 06:47:37 am
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In reply to Gary Palmer who said > > Nate Williams wrote in message ID > <199604040200.TAA15535@rocky.sri.MT.net>: > > I've had this happen twice to me in the last week, and both machines > > were laptops so it may have something to do with that, but this problem > > is driving me crazy. > > I saw something similar whilst I was out at W.C. ``Bob'' got himself a > new machine with an IDE hard drive, and ``fips'' refused to reduce the > size of the DOS partition 'cos it's checksum failed when checking the > MBR it read in. Seems it was somehow pulling the MBR from the WRONG > place on the disk. This machine ONLY had Win95 on it. > > Anyone see a link? Does Win95 somehow mess up something to do with the > MBR? I've seen this as well but it was due to a deframgenter failing to move a couple of blocks. They were immutable as far as it was concerne and I never worked out why. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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