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#161 User is offline   dencorso 

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Posted 02 October 2012 - 10:45 PM

tomasz86 used my 2NDIMA.IMA as the starting image, because I actually asked him to do so.
While it's not exactly what you asked, after reviewing the image tomasz86 attached, I'm confident the result is equivalent.
And, from tomasz86's attached image you can confirm, as I just did, that the quirck you found out first appeared on Win XP (or: after Win 2k).


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Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:15 AM

View Postdencorso, on 02 October 2012 - 10:45 PM, said:

And, from tomasz86's attached image you can confirm, as I just did, that the quirck you found out first appeared on Win XP (or: after Win 2k).

Good :thumbup .
So it's just another of the stupid senseless changes made in XP, not entirely unlike the one that made a lot of people throw away otherwise "good enough" floppies :ph34r: :
http://www.msfn.org/...post__p__971266
http://www.denispetrov.com/?page_id=3

It is very possible that the MS geniuses which had the fantastic idea of volume tracking on Windows 9x :w00t: :
http://en.wikipedia....ble#Boot_Sector
http://homepage.ntlw...name-field.html
were later promoted and managed to worsen the otherwise OK 2K FORMAT executable.

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