Re: Partitions

[David Mitchell <nospam [at] fdgroup.co.uk>]

> > Are you talking about the notional difference between physical and
> > logical, or the layout of partitions? Generally, if you look at hd
> > technology, a lot of it is bodge on top of bodge on top of bodge held
> > together with gaffer tape.
>
> I thought as much, I just didn't want to say it. Do you think it is
> possible to push the industry to redesign the hard drive?

Partions etc are not a feature of the hard drive - they are an artifact
of DOS. All PC BIOS's are written to expect the first few sectors on the
disk to contain the MDR and the boot block etc. If they cant find it
they can't boot, and so can't load the OS of your choice.

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