Hi People,

I'm back after my ordeal in Europe and finally got an inet line..

But now I've over 300 mails from the list to wade through.. Ugh.

It's gonna take some time to get up to speed.

Hi Eric,

That's all fine, it's just an educated choice of disk parameters as I see it.

But anyway, all disk handling software (drivers etc) should honor whatever

disk parameters you write in the boot record when you format the partition, 

and whatever geometry you write in the MBR when the disk gets partitioned,

whether it's this or that.

Just in case someone forgot ;)

Best Regards

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> From: Eric Kohl <eric.kohl@t-online.de>

> 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.