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- From: padgett@tccslr.dnet.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: FDISK/MBR - Listen to what I meant, not what I said. (PC)
- Message-ID: <0013.9301121242.AA22066@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 13:28:08 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
- Lines: 17
- Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu
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- Received the following post:
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- >In Virus-L you (that is I) wrote:
- >>>Of course FDISK/MBR will not have *any* effect with any DOS before
- >>5.00 so this may be the cause.
-
- >Are you sure? I was under the impression that MS-DOS 5.00 FDISK.EXE's
- >/MBR switch would work with any prior version of DOS.
-
- OY. What I meant was *FDISK* from a prior version of DOS would not
- recognise the /MBR switch. Certainly if you boot with DOS 5.0 and use
- its FDISK, the /MBR switch will work reguardless of which version of
- DOS is on the hard disk (or OS/2 or most Unixes for that matter).
-
- In a fog,
-
- Padgett
-