On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 05:07:48PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> OK, but I still don't understand how windows gets the partition table on
> there in the first place ... that must surely be some sort of guess the
> disk size hack.

99% of the time the partition table was provided by the drive
manufacturer; I would assume they have a way of doing that as a part
of their manufacturing processes that don't require an OS individually
running the equivalent of fdisk or gdisk on said drive.

                                           - Ted
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