how not to initialize HD

Darr darr at core.com
Mon Aug 2 03:37:13 UTC 2010


On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @16:34 zulu, Gregory Hosler scribed:
> Then you weren't looking closely.
> 
> - From the original post:
> 
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16
> (LBA) /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended


Right... and then the OP deleted /sda2, leaving 4463
through 4717 unallocated. That doesn't seem to add
up to 96MB by my calculator, though... still, since
Paul has since repartitioned, it's moot anyway.


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