Call for Discussion: Summary document concerning Prevention andRecovery of XP Dual Boot Problems
David T Hollis
dhollis at davehollis.com
Tue May 25 20:26:14 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 21:34 +0200, Chris Chabot wrote:
> Secondly these notes do mostly seemed geared towards quite advanced users?
> Specificly "..you should use a utility that can read the drive geometry" ..
> I think you've lost quite a bit of your target audiance there already.. What
> utility, what do those values mean, how to use those values in the
> workaround.. ?
>
I agree on this point totally. What format is the geometry in? I've
seen various ways of reporting HD geometry from straight cylinder counts
(4134788423 cyl), to the CHS 16/8/64 whatever style, etc. A sample of
what the user would be looking for would probably be very helpful.
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David T Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
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