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Article #8664bootable or not bootable (stupid mailer)
From: Mark Hull-Richter
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 01:58
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 01:58
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I tried to email this, but it bounced (like about half or more of my email responses to net posters - I thought we had a semi-smart mailer here, but it's getting harder to distinguish that from a brain-dead mailer, but I digress). To the person who was debating about formatting bootable vs. non-bootable floppys and hard disks: Subject: Re: Installing a formatted disk Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc In-Reply-To: <1991Mar23.195212.26534@mprgate.mpr.ca> For a floppy disk, there are some utilities floating around which can move your files and FAT entries around so as to make a non-bootable floppy into a SYSable one. I wouldn't recommend this for a hard disk, though - always make your drive C bootable. It doesn't really take up that much room and it will save time in the long run when you decide to make it bootable anyway (trust me - you will). Regards.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!rlgvax!ccicpg!ccicpg.uucp From: mhr@ccicpg.uucp (Mark Hull-Richter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: bootable or not bootable (stupid mailer) Message-ID: <27342@ccicpg.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 91 01:58:04 GMT Sender: mhr@ccicpg.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: ICL, Irvine CA Lines: 20