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Article #4811FDISK/MBR - Listen to what I meant, not what I said. (PC)
From: A. Padgett Peterson
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 13:28
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 13:28
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Received the following post: >In Virus-L you (that is I) wrote: >>>Of course FDISK/MBR will not have *any* effect with any DOS before >>5.00 so this may be the cause. >Are you sure? I was under the impression that MS-DOS 5.00 FDISK.EXE's >/MBR switch would work with any prior version of DOS. OY. What I meant was *FDISK* from a prior version of DOS would not recognise the /MBR switch. Certainly if you boot with DOS 5.0 and use its FDISK, the /MBR switch will work reguardless of which version of DOS is on the hard disk (or OS/2 or most Unixes for that matter). In a fog, Padgett
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cert!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: padgett@tccslr.dnet.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: FDISK/MBR - Listen to what I meant, not what I said. (PC) Message-ID: <0013.9301121242.AA22066@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 7 Jan 93 13:28:08 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 17 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu