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- From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
- Subject: Re: Removing shoelace
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.231420.4328@netcom.com>
- Keywords: shoelace, mbr
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1540@yetti.UUCP> <1549@yetti.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:14:20 GMT
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- In article <1549@yetti.UUCP> g-majar@cs.yorku.ca (Bernard Majarais) writes:
- >
- >Just doing a followup to my own question. The solution is to use Dos 5.0's
- >fdisk /mbr, where the /mbr is undocumented. What it basically does is
- >rewrite the master boot record with the standard one.
- >
- >Thanks to those who replied.
- >--
- >Bernie (g-majar@cs.yorku.ca) | If life is a highway then what should
- > | the speed limit be?
-
- Just for completeness, this undocumented /mbr switch is also found
- in DOS 3.31's fdisk. Which might be useful for somebody.
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- Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.
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