[ros-dev] Announcement: New harddisk geometry next weekend

[Pierre Schweitzer]

Hi Eric,

this sounds good! Once you'll be done with it, I'll go through GPT test
to see if this has fixed the FstubEx GPT backup table issue.
Thank you!

Regards,
Pierre

Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 à 23:17 +0100, Eric Kohl a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> I plan to change the standard harddisk geometry from the old 32 sectors 
> and 64 heads geometry to the new 63 sectors and 255 heads geometry next 
> weekend. The old disk geometry was used up to Windows NT4 and the new 
> geometry is used since Windows 2000. So I guess it is time for ReactOS 
> to make this change too. ;-)
> 
> This should improve the compatiibility with other OSs because every 
> modern OS uses the new disk geometry.
> 
> Please note that you must delete and re-create all partitions on your 
> virtual harddisk in order to get a clean partition table when the new 
> disk geomerty is in use.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
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