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Message-ID: <2KfatFAike8yEw2P@darkblak.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:44:18 +0000
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" <Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: restoring boot sector by hand
In-Reply-To: <1357417448-3425793@diablo.eimages.co.uk>
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In article <1357417448-3425793 AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk>, David Cantrell
<david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk> writes
>Ian Day wrote:
>
>>                                    .... You can recover by using the
>> backup file @BOOTSEC.UI and writing the contents to the boot sector of
>> drive C: (use Norton's DISKEDIT).
>
>Just a quickie - why is my @BOOTSEC.UI 1024 bytes long, when my hard 
>disk uses 512 byte sectors?

Odd.  Mine was 512 bytes...  The size of the boot sector...

Very odd...

DrDebug

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