Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Will Honea on 11-20-1999

JP> Wouldn't it be nice if we had a modern FDISK that *didn't* 
JP> align partitions to cylinder boundaries ?  OS/2 would have 
JP> no trouble with it.  

Nor would DOS 5-7, NT, or anything else I've played with.  The only
problem is creating the sucker in the first place! 

JP> A disk containing one big extended partition would need 
JP> exactly two sectors for the partition table, right at the 
JP> start of the disk.
JP> 
JP> And there wouldn't be any place for MBR viruses to hide any more,
JP> either. 

I know of a few virui of the boot sector ilk that actually do
re-locate partition boundaries to make room to hide themselves.  The
downside is that these would probably over-write data if you took away
their sandbox.

Will Honea 
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