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The following is a quote from pfox on 2003-5-4 17:15:36:
So I think it should be recorded in the boot sector or somewhere on the hard disk, not in a file.
It is very possible. When I initially used SYSTEM COMMANDER, there was a timeout. After that, no matter re-partitioning or formatting, it could be detected that SC had been installed before and there was a timeout, refusing to install. Finally, I low - formatted the first few hundred sectors to be able to reinstall it. So maybe MS also uses the same means, writing data as a mark in the first few sectors of the hard disk that do not belong to any partition.
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The following is a quote from Wengier on 2003-5-4 23:30:45:
As far as I know, Windows does a flag in the file allocation table (FAT) of the drive to be able to determine it.
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