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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Fdisk and MBR - a question
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:44:35 +1100 
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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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