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CRC Calc For Physical HDD In DOS
Name: hippiejoeland (by HippieJoeLand) Date: December 6, 2004 at 10:40:29 Pacific OS: DOS - RAMDISK CPU/Ram: 933
Comment:
Anyone know of an exe that will calculate the CRC value of a physical disk while running off a ram disk? Most I can find calculate values of files only. Thanks. Hippie Joe
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 6, 2004 at 21:49:42 Pacific
Reply:
I'm not sure what it means to calc the CRC of a physical.
M2
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Response Number 2
Name: hippiejoeland (by HippieJoeLand) Date: December 7, 2004 at 15:03:37 Pacific
Reply:
What I ment was to calculate the crc from the first sector to the last sector regardless of partitioning information. usally in windows it is specified by disk0, disk1, disk2... I am looking for a crc dos program that would calc the crc of a disk at the same level as it would in linux if I specified it to calc the drive, hda. thanks
hippiejoe
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 7, 2004 at 19:50:06 Pacific
Reply:
OK, now I get it.
I'll work on it.
M2
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Response Number 4
Name: JackG Date: December 7, 2004 at 20:25:23 Pacific
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Not much use of such a tool in the DOS world, so I would not expect to find one available.
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Response Number 5
Name: wizard-fred Date: December 7, 2004 at 22:43:42 Pacific
Reply:
The question is why? You cannot use the drive for anything. Writing any byte would invalidate the CRC. You can't boot Windows or Linux or any OS that has a swap file.
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