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by thejsa 2219 days ago
I believe on Windows the FlexNet DRM they use(d?) would overwrite Sector 32 and/or sometimes other nearby ones [0], which broke a fair few people’s GRUB2 bootloader installs as well as TrueCrypt as Flexera apparently didn’t check to see if it was in use for something else first.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexNet_Publisher#Issues_with_...