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- BOOT BLOCK CHECKER
- Version 1.00 March 1994
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- Written by DCAT
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- (C) Copyright 1994 DCAT
- All rights Reserved
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- Boot Block Checker is copyright all rights are retained
- by the authors.
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- DISTRIBUTION
- This program is distributed ' AS IS ' . The user assumes all
- responsibility and risk related to its use. This program
- may be distributed in any form and in any media ( ie PD
- libraries, BBS) provided that no charge is made for this
- program. This excludes costs of media, copying and or shipping.
- This document and Boot Block Checker and there icons must be
- distributed together.
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- CREDITS
- Boot Block Checker was written using BLITZ BASIC 2 V1.70.
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- HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION
- From Workbench just drag the drawer across to
- where you want it.
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- THE PROGRAM
- Boot Block Checker as the name suggests checks the boot block
- of floppy disks. It can also remove and/or install boot
- blocks. All current DOS types are accepted.(OS1.3, OS2.x
- OS3.0) Excluding disk which are High Density. (ie A4000)
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- QUIT
- Exit Boot Block Checker
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- CHECK
- Clicking on this checks the boot block in the selected drive
- then informs you of the status of the boot block
- O/System - This is the operating system that the disk was
- formatted under. NOTE there is no difference
- between disk formatted as OFS & FFS with or
- without being bootable which where formatted
- using OS 2.x and 3.0 and as such will always
- show as being formatted using OS 2.x
- Format - This is the format of the disk ie * OFS
- (Old File System) * OFSystem / Dir Cache *
- FFSystem / Int Mode
- Bootable - Can the disk be booted Yes/NO
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- Non - Standard boot Block this is reported when the program
- looks at the boot block and says to it self hang on a sec
- this does not look like a normal boot block. It is nothing
- to be concerned about because some disks do not have
- standard boot blocks. These boot blocks could have been
- modified by PD programs (ie a programs which display iff ilbm
- files using the boot block). Also some commercial programs
- have custom boot blocks. Although if you can not be 100% about
- a boot block on a disk then use a Virus Checker to check the
- boot block. Boot Block Checker recognise boot blocks
- installed by ZeroVirus III & XCopy
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- Install - Installs a boot block on the selected drive
- Note - The programs will install a OS 2.x
- on disk formatted using OS 1.3 this makes no
- difference to the disk ands its bootblock. These
- disk can still be used on OS 1.3 systems
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- Remove - Removes a boot block form the select drive
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- TO SELECT A DRIVE
- simple click on a non ghosted DF box
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- CAUTION
- To remove or installed boot blocks to some commercial
- or Public Domain disks can in effect make that disk/program
- unuseable.
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