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From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Fdisk questions?
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:25:03 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <501.828596857@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 4, 96 06:47:37 am
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In reply to Gary Palmer who said
> 
> Nate Williams wrote in message ID
> <199604040200.TAA15535@rocky.sri.MT.net>:
> > I've had this happen twice to me in the last week, and both machines
> > were laptops so it may have something to do with that, but this problem
> > is driving me crazy.
> 
> I saw something similar whilst I was out at W.C. ``Bob'' got himself a
> new machine with an IDE hard drive, and ``fips'' refused to reduce the
> size of the DOS partition 'cos it's checksum failed when checking the
> MBR it read in. Seems it was somehow pulling the MBR from the WRONG
> place on the disk. This machine ONLY had Win95 on it.
> 
> Anyone see a link? Does Win95 somehow mess up something to do with the
> MBR?

I've seen this as well but it was due to a deframgenter failing to move
a couple of blocks. They were immutable as far as it was concerne and I
never worked out why.

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