Re: Create Big size dummy File..

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From: NickHK (TungCheWah_at_Invalid.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:23:03 +0800

I get the same results (all nulls) on NTFS and FAT32 disks with W2K, so does
that make it an OS issue rather than disk format ?

NickHK

"J French" <erewhon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:40d887bd.30812343@news.btclick.com...
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:01:41 -0700, "Bob Butler"
> <tiredofit@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >"Duane Bozarth" <dp_bozarth@swko.dot.net> wrote in message
> >news:40D85FA1.527CFC3A@swko.dot.net
> ><cut>
> >> I'm not sure--this old machine <is> W95, I'll have to try on another,
> >> but it's what I would expect (again w/o the security issue) -- data
> >> not written would be whatever left over from before w/o explicit
> >> initialization. That's just the way 'puters always worked, at least
> >> in the olden days.
> >
> >I guess it's just been too long since I worked on Win9x systems or with
> >FAT/FAT32 file systems. I knew they weren't secure, just didn't remember
> >them being *that* bad. NTFS under Win2K doesn't do that.
> >
>
> NTFS - AKA HPFS rather changed the rules
>
> FAT used physical mapping
>
> (Not IMO a bad idea)

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