Mail Archives: opendos/2001/12/07/02:39:44
I haven't used the FreeDOS FDISK, but I seem to recall
someone saying this was fairly stable, so perhaps this
can be used?
Also, please see below ...
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Paul [SMTP:Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:56 AM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: Fdisk and MBR - a question
>
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> > installation to the extent that it is usefull to start over. MSDOS works
> > fine for this, but I can't provide a download utility disk using MSDOS
> > because of licensing issues.
>
> Really? AFAIK MS-DOS FDISK /MBR does overwrite the bootstrap loader
> in the MBR, but not the partition table unless the 55AAh signature
> is not in there any more. This is the same as with DR-DOS FDISK...
>
[Joe da Silva]
As far as I can recall, M$-DOS FDISK doesn't write a back-up
of the MBR (?), so it might work for Tom, in this situation.
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