On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:58:03 GMT, dk@no.email.thankstospam.net (DK)
wrote:

>I don't know. I've used BartPE on systems with no HDD, on at
>least five different machines with HDD, some FAT32, some NTFS,
>and I have never had a problem, much less trashing the system
>as a result of using it.
>
>Care to elaborate?


He booted a win98 box (with a fat32 hard disk) from bartpe then ran
the xp chkdsk utility with a switch telling it to automatically fix
all errors. Apparently, bartpe failed to read the partition table
section of this hard disk's master boot record correctly and thought
it contained a single ntfs partition. Either that or bart somehow
incorrectly altered the partition table. Consequently, his fat32 hard
disk got trashed and bart got the blame.


Jim.