BusyDizzys

I can see sh*t breaking, and breaking bad :p theres no way im gonna be using all them mongy disk managers, boot managers and f*ck knows what else in this day and age we left them behind with out 486s... I have very bad memorys of OEM Custom hard drive install software and Fdisk freaking (or the Win95 installer!) out rendering drives unusable... this is coming on the back of a new hard drive format to make hard drives more "efficent"  and larger by the end of 2011. Apprantly this will effect users of Windows XP and older the most as it can't native handle the new format and if its modded to theres a performace hit :( with XP support fading fast I don't think we going to see much of a official Microsoft answer and it will be left to 3rd partys and drive makers to screw some home made tat into the holes. Apprantly the newer drives do all this while invisable to Windows but we will see...

Behold TeH lemon (repin' XP in this case) :

"Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years.By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.The move to the advanced format will make it easier for hard drive makers to produce bigger drives that use less power and are more reliable.However, it might mean problems for Windows XP users who swap an old drive for one using the changed format."

Orig. article : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm

PS: Quick Skimming of the Linux groups shows there apprantly unaffected, mind you hardly surprising is it when f*ck all else works for them :p