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ZZ>
> Hate to burst your bubble guy but I can produce a 128 byte program
>
> All one need do is punch a hole into the
> disk, that hole is nothing more than 1 cluster having it's
> format removed.
ZZ>
Which you cannot do unless you have locked the disc. You
cannot lock an active partition.
[c:\]format c:
The type of file system for the disk is HPFS.
SYS0525: The specified disk cannot be formatted.
[c:\]
Incidentally, HPFS does not have any notion of a "cluster". The unit
of allocation in HPFS is a sector.
ZZ>
> Put bluntly, while HPFS doesn't suffer the same
> fragmentation ills that plague FAT volumes, it is one heck
> of a lot easier to break and harder to fix than any FAT partition...
ZZ>
You're in a minority of one there. Speaking for myself (and I know of
others who would say the same), HPFS has withstood everything that I
can throw at it a whole lot better than FAT ever did in its day.
> JdeBP <
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