FDISK/MBR - Listen to what I meant, not what I said. (PC) - Thread - go-pugleaf

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1 total messages Started by A. Padgett Peterson Thu, 07 Jan 1993 13:28

FDISK/MBR - Listen to what I meant, not what I said. (PC)

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Author: A. Padgett Peterson
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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