<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 10/10/2013 9:48 AM, shimi wrote:<br>
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Flashback from the past: Problems in sector 0 on floppies :)<br>
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I guess Peter Norton isn't Jewish. Or as a less obscure reference, the Norton Utilities to read the SECOND FAT did not make it to Israel.<br>
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Like a backup superblock, DOS has a backup FAT.<div class="HOEnZb"><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I stand corrected then. Does make me wonder how so much important stuff got lost over the years if there are two copies (maybe they're at the same disk area, and thus, was a lousy backup to begin with?) when only sector 0 got bad (probably due to multiple writes on the same area...)<br>
<br></div><div>Still, I would prefer two partitions if switching between them is rather easy. Personally I would probably instead buy two 32GB cards which is less putting all your eggs in one basket, but that's not what the OP wants, it seems :)<br>
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