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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: Harald Pollack
date: 1999-11-02 09:08:09
subject: HPFS freespace bmp list

Am 24. Oct 99 22:11, schrieb MIKE RUSKAI (1:3603/140)
    an DARIN MCBRIDE:

Servus MIKE!

 MR> Well, it seems that the discrepancy is universal.  I found 
 MR> that the sectors in question were the first 4096 of the last 4100 sectors 

 MR> on the drive (the last four sectors being the last freespace bitmap on
the
 MR>  drive).

Maybe that space is reserved for a 'Reference Partition' on some IBM PS/2
machines. I have made the experience, that creating a reference partition on a 
(already partitioned) drive which has a HPFS partition as its last one, will
work without destroying any data.

Herzliche Gruesse, Harald

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