Subj : Re: filesystems
To   : comp.programming
From : Bill Cunningham
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 02:44 am

> In either case, once you get the clusters repacked and repositioned as
> appropriate, you have to adjust all the directory entries on the volume
> to use the "new" cluster numbers, rebuild the new format FATs, and
> rebuild the reserved area at the beginning of the disk to match the new
> format.

    So if I used a partion manager, specifically linux's fdisk. And changed
a fat32 partition's signature to that of fat 16. What exactly is happening?
I've been trying this and have been successful in the past now I can't seem
to get things to work. I reboot into win98 and format the new fat16. Then
boot with a floppy ms-dos 6.21. I can't get the system to install. into 1st
or 2nd partition on the HD. DOS should be able to format a fat 16 partition
using it's 16 bit format command.
But it says it can't access the partition.

Bill

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