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In <1992Oct15.153610.29280@news.ysu.edu> doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) writes:

>S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
>: In <1992Oct14.194137.26262@news.ysu.edu> doug@cc.ysu.edu writes:
>: 
>: >...
>: >  If you boot from a floppy disk, the machine hangs.  If you boot from the
>: >  hard-drive, the screen clears and the word 'Password:' is displayed.
>: >  
>: >  We suspect it's some form of commercial or shareware password protection
>: >  that imbeds itself in the partition table or some other place where it
>: >  will be activated during power-on self test.
>: >  
>: >  Do you have any suggestions (besides removing the hard drives - which
>: >  we're considering ?)  How do we get rid of it ?
>: 
>: Try to remove the hard disk *logically*: go SETUP and mark the hard
>: disk as 'not installed' or the like. This will (should) prevent the
>: possibly tampered master boot record from being read. (Still, you can
>: try it with the disk taken out physically, this will guarantee that
>: the boot record gets not read ;-)

>If we do this, then the machine will boot completely from a floppy disk.
>But we can't access the hard drive to fix it.  If the HD is configured
>in, then the machine will NOT complete a floppy-disk boot.

then fire up ontracks (or your favorite) disk manager and reinstall the
drive, or refprmat it, or whatever you want to do.

bill pociengel
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llbi locgeenpi " i'm a little confused right now"