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Article #9720Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?
From: Allen J Michielsen
Date: Sun, 05 May 1991 04:53
Date: Sun, 05 May 1991 04:53
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In article <midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) >Upon what does it depend? The version of DOS? The kind of drive >(LD or HD, 5.25" or 3.5") or what? As several people have attempted to answer in different ways..... It depends on the major, minor, & vendor version of dos being used. Generically, early dos versions generally didn't work at all. Later version like 3.3 will generally work as long as no files reside in the 'reserved' locations. However, on a side note, both norton utilities and mace utilities, (and PC Tools 5.0 I think as well), ALL will make ANY disk bootable, just as long as enough disk space and directory/FAT space are available. I highly recommend owning one of these fine products. al -- Al. Michielsen, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University InterNet: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu amichiel@sunrise.acs.syr.edu Bitnet: AMICHIEL@SUNRISE
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!amichiel From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S? Keywords: disk format DOS Message-ID: <1991May5.045319.7006@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Date: 5 May 91 04:53:19 GMT References: <1991May3.191723.24131@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Lines: 20