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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:40:26 -0500
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: is my partition table hopelessly ruined?
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:45:39 +0500, Mark @ Cross+Road's wrote:

> On this same thread could you please tell me where would I find my
> "partition table"?.  I find nothing in my root like a partition table and I
> am using Dr-dos #703Beta.  Where is this hidden partition table attrib in
> the root shows nothing that is like a partition table that I can determine
> is a table?  Is it possible that it is built into another Dr-dos program?  How
> could you edit something that you cannot even find?
> Thanks,

 The partition table is a section of data written directly to
the HD by the program "Fdisk".
This also applies to the MBR (Master Boot Record) and
the FAT (File Allocation Table).
None of these can be viewed or altered the way that a file can be.
In order to do it, you must run "Fdisk" or some other utility
which is designed for this purpose.

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