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from: BILL WOLFF
date: 1997-10-27 04:54:00
subject: Partition Bug Warning!!!

 * Crossposted from: WIN95
I installed a large IDE HD just recently and I have been bitten by 
this corruption bug. Maybe some of you should download this fix 
before you happen to run into this one when it will be too late.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/system-updates.htm
Disk Type Specific Driver Update for Windows 95 (Download: 114K, 
self-extracting Zip file, published: June 27th, 1996)
This update resolves a problem in Windows 95 which may, in certain 
specific configurations, lead to corrupted data on extended 
partitions on large IDE drives.
This problem may arise if all of the below conditions are true:
     The hard disk is a large (>504 MB) Enhanced IDE hard disk.
     The hard disk is accessed using Logical Block Addressing (LBA).
     The hard disk has been partitioned into multiple partitions 
     with the Windows 95 version of FDISK, or another partitioning 
     utility that creates MS-DOS extended partition types 0x0E and 
     0x0F.
     The system BIOS supports extended INT13 functions to access 
     hard disk devices.
     You have exited to MS-DOS mode from Windows 95 without 
     rebooting the computer.
Under these conditions, the contents of logical drives in the 
extended partition may appear incorrect or corrupted. If these 
logical drives are written to under this condition, information may 
be written incorrectly to these drives, resulting in data 
corruption.
Users of computers with large IDE hard disks (greater than 504mb), 
partitioned into multiple logical drives, with a system BIOS that 
supports extended INT13 functions, should obtain this update.
(c)1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Legal Notices. 
contents revised Feb. 21,1997 
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