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From: Marc.Unangst@p0.f129.n120.z1.fidonet.org (Marc Unangst)
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Subject: Re: PC WatchDog problem
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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 89 17:24:55 EST
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In article <1989Nov9.141414.4166@virtech.uucp>, cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
 >The reason for the invalid drive specification is that watchdog marks the
 >partition as a non-dos partition and therefore dos programs will not access
 >the partition.

If all it's doing is marking the partition as a non-DOS one, then all you
have to do is load the partition table into the Norton Utilities's editor
(select Absolute Sector, side 0, track 0, sector 1), and then just flip
the partition ID byte to DOS-12 or DOS-16, depending on the size of the
FAT.



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