Re: How does PC know what kind of file system the mass storage device has?

From: Maxim S. Shatskih (maxim_at_storagecraft.com)
Date: 04/26/05 

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:58:11 +0400

> desktop know it is a HDD, CD-RW or DVD-RW. But, how does PC know what
> kind of file system the device has?

It reads the important sector locations from the disk and tries to recognize
the filesystem. 

-- 
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

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