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I'm planning to back up the system to the last partition on the hard drive, using a batch file together with PQDI. How does DOS check for hard disk partitions?
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The following is quoted from Roy at 2003-8-31 11:22:10:
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But it can't recognize partitions like NTFS/Ext2
Because DOS itself cannot recognize formats like NTFS unless third-party software is loaded; so if there are no special requirements it should be workable; also, what you want to do by finding the last partition will determine the method.....