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From: "Joep" <joep@diydatarecovery.nl>
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Subject: Re: small boot sector
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:31:03 +0100
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> IIRC, a FAT12 (and FAT16) fs must have exactly one reserved sector, and I
> think there are FAT drivers out there that assume this.

Well, just noticed on my XP machine that XP actually formatted a FAT16
partition with reserved sector(s): 2
