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Boot/Partition Record
Stormranger #2 - RIG 59 BBS
Tue Oct 06 12:03:18 1992

Well, first of all hello to y'all out in the Net, from RIG 59 BBS (WWIV)
here in beautiful Southern Illinois!

I'm working on a program in Turbo C, and want to do a checksum on a hard
disk's boot and partition record (similar to F-OSCHK in the F-PROT
anti-virus package).  As a result, I'd like to know the exact sectors
where these records reside.  (I have a DOS programmers manual ordered,
but I'm getting impatient. <grin> )

While I'm at it, what's the absolute location of the hard disk serial
numbers generated by DOS 4.01 and above?

Finally... does anyone know why the C function absread (read absolute
sector) would fail on DOS 4.01 and DOS 5.0 but run perfectly on DOS 3.3?

Thanks!
Paul G - a.k.a. STORMRANGER
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