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riordan@tmxmelb.mhs.oz.au (Roger Riordan) writes:
>The command FDISK /MBR is often recommended for removing MBR 
>infectors (Stoned, etc) from hard disks.  However in some 
>circumstances this can cause problems with some scanners.  It 
>appears that some versions of FDISK/MBR rewrite the Master Boot 
>Record only as far as the end of the error messages, leaving the all 
>important partition information unchanged, but also leaving any 
>viral code between the messages and the partition information.

I recently installed Linux, a version of unix for the PC, in addition
to my regular dos partition.  This comes with a small program called
"wini" which is a program, which occupies the MBR to allow me to
choose which OS I would like to boot into.  It's my understanding
OS/half does somethign like this, also, or can do something like this.
If FDISK/MBR REWRITES the MBR with the basic, boring code that
normally is there with DOS, then if I use this method, I will destroy
the wini program, and restrict myself from booting into my Linux
partition.  This is another drawback to fdisk/mbr.
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