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| subject: | Paul gets up to mischief. |
BL> I said nothing about relevant information "gone forever." In
BL> fact I said very little about Paul's folly... except that I
BL> found it rather "courageous" to repartition a hard drive
BL> without backing it up first.
PE> I didn't repartition it. All I did was enable LBA, check to see
PE> if it still worked, which it did, and then decide to install
PE> OS/2. BFN.
BL> It amounts to the same thing if you run LBA and fsdisk, doesn't it?
BL> I thought that was what LBA did: change all the addresses. The data is
BL> still there... it's just that you don't know where.
in theory, there should be no problem with accessing the data either way
unless the bios has the wrong disk geometry. there are some problems also
with the lba algorithms with some bioses, from memory, western digital's is
suspect.
keith
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