DB>> Well done! HPFS' reliability shines through. Paul 1, Bob 0.

 BL> I've never been stupid enough to fdisk with LBA while there was
 BL> data on it.

 DB> Actually, I was referring to the fact that you said the
 DB> relevant information was gone forever - Paul's just proved that
 DB> it hadn't gone, was just .. "misplaced". :-) 

  I said nothing about relevant information "gone forever." In fact I
said very little about Paul's folly... except that I found it rather
"courageous" to repartition a hard drive without backing it up first.
I said nothing about HPFS because I know nothing about it. I have no
opinion on it. It uses two different tables, doesn't it, in different
locations?

  It has always struck me as totally *stupid* for DOS to put the two
FATs in adjacent sectors, and to keep only one boot record. I rebuilt
a floppy disc once, and it was a *bastard* that took me all day.

Regards,
Bob
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