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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Matser Boot (Was: Re: Is there any hope left?)
- Message-ID: <9301051232.AA08656@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 22:05:19 GMT
- References: <9212281527.AA23765@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
- Lines: 17
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- >
- > Well, just to add insult to injury, after I got rid of all the Coherent
- > partitions, I noticed that suddenly my DOS started to lock up after running
- > for about 5 minutes. The only thing that has changed is the darned Master
- > Boot remnant from Coherent. I got so ticked off, I removed the whole DOS
- > partition with 140 MB worth of files in it. Guess what, Master Boot
- > is still there. I think I am going to scream.
- >
- > t.
- >
-
- Once again had you called MWC tech support you would have been informed of
- the many ways to remove the Coherent Master Boot program.
-
- The simple way is to boot up dos5 (and for dos5 only) at the prompt type
- FDISK /MBR <enter> . This is a hidden dos command which replaces the
- dos master boot record.
-