CH> etc
CH> etc.) Every book covers the MBR, but then jumps straight into the dos
CH> boot
CH> sector, WITHOUT doccumenting the logical drives-in-an-extended-partition
CH> table!
what i could understand while poking into my parents' disk a few month
ago (recovering from a crash), is that an extended partition is just a
virtual disk in which you have a pseudo-mbr containing a
pseudo-partition table containing a logical drive and a link to the
next pseudo-partition...
can i hi-ascii 437?
旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴�
� 旼컴커 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 �
� � � � 旼컴커 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� � �
� � � � � � � 旼커 旼컴컴컴커 � � �
� � � � � � � � � � 旼커 , � � � �
� � c: � � � d: � � 쿮:� � 쿯:� � � � � �
� � � � � � � � � � 읕켸 ' � � � �
� � � � � � � 읕켸 읕컴컴컴켸 � � �
� � � � 읕컴켸 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� � �
� 읕컴켸 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 �
읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴�
this is approximately how a drive divided into 4 parts, c: d: e: f:, is
structured.
it looks like a linked list: you have a container that's got 2 things:
the c, and the rest. the rest is a container that's got 2 things: the
d, and the rest...
drives = { c:, { d:, { e:, { f:, {} } } } }
that's what i remember from that experience...
matju
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