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From: Scott.Hass@p3.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Scott Hass)
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Subject: Reading a Hard Disk (The Hard Way)
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Date: 8 Nov 89 21:36:59 GMT
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 > I need some help with reading/writing sectors on a non-MSDOS
 > hard disk (no MSDOS partition table - I can't afford to run
 > fdisk on it).

  Norton utility version 2.01 has a prog. that may do what you want 
to do. It is called hardmod.
It will only read a maximum of 4 heads and 305 cylinders, but since the
partition info is on cyl. 0, head 0, it will probably work.

  Good luck



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