2 Jan
2010
2 Jan
'10
3:40 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 1 Jan 2010 at 18:55, Josh Dersch wrote:
Very interesting, I had no idea. Looks like Windows 95/98 only:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/148637.
Never heard about this before. Sounds like a useful idea poorly
implemented (cue snarky comments). Recent Windows releases definitely
don't do this or I'd have had a lot of trouble with my IBM PS/2 refdisks...
Josh
I don't believe this is true. If it _is_
true, it's news to me, as
I've been doing stuff with floppies on Windows for years and haven't
noticed anything as odd as that occurring.
S'true. Early versions of Windows 9x would unceremoniously change
the OEM name in bytes 3-10 to "xxxxIHC" where xxxx was a random
character field on any un-protected diskette. Ostensibly, this was
done for purposes of volume tracking--and done without warning.
Of course, if the write failed by corrupting the boot sector, all
manner of trouble ensued.
I don't believe that later versions (e.g. Win95 OSR2, Win98, WinME)
did this.
I think that some people were stunned by the unmitigated chutzpa of
the Win95 implementors.
--Chuck