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MSG LEFT BY: RESET VECTOR
DATE POSTED: SUN APR 15 11:21:20 PM
NOW THAT YOU HAVE THE BOOT CRACKED, YOU HAVE TO FIT IT ON A COPY OF THE
ORIGINAL DISK. YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND FREE SPACE ON THE DISK AND MARK IT
FREE IN THE VTOC AND THEN MOVE THE VTOC TO SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN TRACK 11,
WHICH IS USED FOR DATA BY THE ORIGINAL. NOW, IF YOU WATCH THE ORIGINAL BOOT,
YOU WILL SEE THAT IT USES TRACKS 0-9 FOR THE BOOT. SO WE KNOW THAT WE CAN
PUT A NORMAL DOS ON THE DISK AND FREE UP THESE TRACKS. BUT THIS WILL NOT BE
QUITE ENOUGH ROOM, SO FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE.
1. INIT A BLANK DISK
2. MAKE A COPYA COPY OF THE ORIGINAL AND COPY TRACKS 0-2 (THE DOS TRACKS) AND
TRACK 11 (THE VTOC/CATALOG TRACK) FROM THE INITED BLANK DISK ON TO THIS COPY
OF THE ORIGINAL DISK.
3. NOW YOU NEED A VTOC EDITOR. I USE DISK FIXER FOR THE BI CHANGES AND
WATSON (WHICH WILL BE ESSENTIAL HERE) FOR THE INDIVIDUAL SECTORS, ALTHOUGH
YOU CAN USE WATSON FOR THE WHOLE THING. TAKE THE DISK YOU HAVE CREATED AND
USE THE VTOC EDITOR (REMEMBER CTRL-L IN WATSON CHANGES THE STATUS OF A SECTOR)
TO FREE UP SECTORS 5-F OF TRACK 2 (UNUSED BY DOS) AND TO MARK ALL OF TRACKS
A-22 AS USED. ALSO MARK AS USED SECTORS 0 AND F OF TRACK 9, WHICH IS WHERE
WE WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE THE VTOC, AND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT EDIT TRACK 1
SECTOR B BYTE 01 FROM 11 TO 09 TO TELL DOS WHERE THE VTOC WILL BE.
4. NOW USE WATSON TO SCAN THE DISK SECTOR BY SECTOR STARTING AT TRACK A
SECTOR 0, AND EVERY TIME YOU FIND A SECTOR THAT IS ALL THE SAME VALUE (IN THIS
CASE USUALLY "20" ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES "00") HIT CTRL-L TO FREE UP THE SECTOR.
DO THIS UNTIL YOU HAVE 165 FREE SECTORS (JUST HIT "M" OCCASIONALLY TO SEE HOW
YOU ARE PROGRESSING).
5. YOU ARE ALMOST DONE. JUST USE FID OR COPY ][+ OR WHATEVER TO TRANSFER
THE CRACKED BOOT FILE TO THIS DISK. COPY ][+ IS NICE BECAUSE YOU CAN THEN
JUST CHANGE BOOT PROGRAM AND IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY MAKE THE DOS BRUN YOUR
CRACKED FILE.
6. NOW USE YOUR SECTOR EDITOR (WATSON OR WHATEVER) TO MOVE TRACK 11 SECTOR 0
TO TRACK 9 SECTOR 0 AND TRACK 11 SECTOR F TO TRACK 9 SECTOR F, THEREBY MOVING
THE VTOC AND CATALOG. YOU WILL HAVE TO EDIT BYTE 01 OF SECTOR 0 FROM 11 TO 09
AND BYTES 01-02 OF SECTOR F TO 00 00.
7. FINALLY, USE YOUR COPY PROGRAM (I USE FAST COPY WHICH ALLOWS ME TO COPY
A RANGE OF NORMAL TRACKS, BUT YOU CAN USE A NIBBLE COPIER) TO COPY TRACK 11
FROM THE ORIGINAL DISK ON TO THE DISK YOU HAVE CREATED.
THAT'S IT! I KNOW THAT THE VTOC EDITING AND MOVING CAN BE CONFUSING AS ALL
HELL AT FIRST, BUT THEY ARE ESSENTIAL FOR CRACKING A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT
PROGRAMS, SO KEEP ON CRACKING!
COURTESY OF ->RESET VECTOR!