Re: Formatting a hard disk and handling of suspicious bad sectors
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
>>>>
>>>> Oh yes ... I remember DOS ... and floppy disks too!
>>>>
>>>> Most of today's disks are way too big to do a DOS format without
>>>> first setting up lots of logical partitions.
>>>>
>>> Wrong. You can format the entire drive with one partition if you want.
>>>
>> ... as long as one is prepared to use partition types that most
>> versions of MS/PC/DR-DOS won't be able to cope with. This, of
>> course, was M. Bryce's point. And even then that is presuming that
>> one's disc is below the 2TiB limit, beyond which one has to do things
>> like switch from the MBR partitioning scheme to the EFI partitioning
>> scheme, which no version of MS/PC/DR-DOS at all can cope with.
>>
> Modern versions of Win handle [partition types that most versions of
> MS/PC/DR-DOS won't be able to cope with] fine.
>
"Modern versions of Win" are not DOS, of course.
> Not it was not [M. Bryce's point].
>
I'm confident that if asked xe would state xyrself that it was. What xe
wrote wasn't particularly unclear.
> Only fools run dinosaurs like that.
>
Whether it's foolish to run MS/PC/DR-DOS is besides the point. The
premise is that one is, and the consequence of the premise is that it's
difficult to handle today's disc sizes with MS/PC/DR-DOS, given their
comparatively small partition size limits and the 2TiB limit of the old
MBR partitioning scheme (the only partitioning scheme that they
understand) itself.
Ed Light
>> Only fools run dinosaurs like that.
>>
> Whether it's foolish to run MS/PC/DR-DOS is besides the point. The
It looks like you may be answering Rod Speed. Most of us have him
filtered out, and it's quite clear sailing!
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