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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2003-04-14 10:55:43
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > An additional complexity is that your imaging program _has_ to cope both > > with volumes where the backup bootsector is at the end of the partition > > and with volumes where it is in the middle of the volume. - Yes these do > > exist (with NT4-pre-SP4 and NT3). > > I'm not sure I've seen this between NT4 and NT4-pre-SP4 but I believe NT3. > I also think this case (backup bootsector in the middle of volume) could be > just unsupported, NTFS version <= 1.1? I don't think it's worth bothering > with this case since statistically nobody uses them. NT3.51 has NTFS 1.2 _and_ it has the backup bootsector in the middle. The same goes for NT4 before SP4 (before NTFS3.x support was added). I admit I have never verified the NT4 before SP4 case but NT3.51 I have verified personally (I have it installed in vmware). Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
