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- From: markf@atlastele.com (Mark Ferris)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: How to Un write protect a stacker volume
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.235545.587@atlastele.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 23:55:45 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.155027.1941@regina.cs.uregina.ca> <1992Aug19.144120.27518@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Aug19.212156.19397@nosc.mil>
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- In article <1992Aug19.212156.19397@nosc.mil> discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug19.144120.27518@klaava.Helsinki.FI> jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen) writes:
- >>In <1992Aug18.155027.1941@regina.cs.uregina.ca> wall@hercules writes:
- >>
- >>>Could some please give me the command that will let me un write
- >>>protect my stacker volume and drive. Thanks.
- >>
- >
- >Boot up a regular DOS (or comment out the .SYS's in the config.sys). There
- >will be a hidden file (I forget the name) that represents the Stacker volume
- >(you can use an disk utility to see it)--change the file's attribute from
- >read only to r/w.
-
- This I haven't tried, but another method that does work (I know, I
- had to use it just today :-( ) is scheck /=w (no, the = isn't a mistake).
-
- This will alter the write protect also. Of course, though, it won't
- fix the problem that caused the volume to be write-protected.
-
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