[plug] for your amusement: microsoft's initial response

[Leon Brooks]

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> Original message follows:
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> 
> These comments are made with reference to your page "How to Remove Linux
> and Install Windows 2000 or Windows NT on Your Computer" at
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q247/8/04.ASP
> 
> > Superblock" in Linux terminology means that the Linux partition
> > should be the active partition.
> 
> The Superblock is the first thing that Linux looks for within a
> partition when it wants to look at the information on it (mount it).
> Multiple superblocks are stored so that if something unfortunate happens
> to the first one, the information on the parition can continue to be
> used.
> 
> In addition to repairing this error on your page, can you please do up
> versions of it explaining the process on PowerPC and perhaps MIPS
> computers?

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