[Pc_Support] Windows 2000 and FAT32 -> ext3; Windows goes nuts

[Jason Boxman]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 01:38, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Fun.

Heh.

Owned.

After doing some research and creating some small ext3 images on loopback, it 
became pretty clear that my first two 512-byte sectors had a bunch of Windows 
junk in them.  I suppose Windows 2000 was just keying off that, so I zeroed 
out the first two sectors and booted back into Windows.  Windows is now happy 
and disavows all knowledge of any FAT32 filesystems.

(The last symptoms after I had removed the drive letter from the filesystem 
under Disk Management were slow boot up and Disk Management MMC hanging for 
about 2 minutes before showing me the partitions on disk -- Such nonsense has 
now stopped.)

Fun tools during this experiment included `dd`, `hexeditor`, and `gpart`.

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Jason Boxman
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