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- From: cdfannin@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning)
- Subject: Re: Fixed disk read failure: screwy boot sector?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.194800.1734@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:48:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug24.162323.2935@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug24.044152.17380@sbcs.sunysb.edu> cdfannin@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning) writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug23.234746.8953@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- [ much deleted ]
- >>My primary partition on the drive is DOS, I tried DOS's "SYS" and OS/2's
- >>"FDISK" Neither of them worked. I was hoping that "SYS" would re-create
- >>the boot sector but it didn't. (This was booting DOS off of floppy and
- >>going through the first 2 OS/2 disks.) Finally, I decided to try Norton's
- >>Disk Doctor (which usually does more harm than good.. which is why I steer
- >>clear of it) and it identified the problem as the boot program was corrupted
- >>and asked if it should fix it... I said "yes" and it did!
- >
- >Wow, is ther ea way to fix this problem w/o buy the Norton Disk Doctor?
- >Is the NDD a part of some larger package, like Desltop/Win or sokmething?
- >Thanks-
- >.
- >das9674@usl.edu
-
- Personally, I don't know if there's a way to fix this problem without using
- Norton Disk Doctor. Someone else might know of one...? But, NDD comes in
- the package Norton Utilities for DOS. Generally good programs except their
- utility is greatly reduced under OS/2.. (sector editing doesn't work.. etc..)
-
- Chris
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