[ros-dev] Announcement: New harddisk geometry next weekend

[chris]

Sounds like a damn good idea, who needs compatability for ancient os like NT 
4.0?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Kohl" <eric.kohl at t-online.de>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at reactos.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:17 AM
Subject: [ros-dev] Announcement: New harddisk geometry next weekend


> Hi!
>
> I plan to change the standard harddisk geometry from the old 32 sectors 
> and 64 heads geometry to the new 63 sectors and 255 heads geometry next 
> weekend. The old disk geometry was used up to Windows NT4 and the new 
> geometry is used since Windows 2000. So I guess it is time for ReactOS to 
> make this change too. ;-)
>
> This should improve the compatiibility with other OSs because every modern 
> OS uses the new disk geometry.
>
> Please note that you must delete and re-create all partitions on your 
> virtual harddisk in order to get a clean partition table when the new disk 
> geomerty is in use.
>
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
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