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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC WatchDog problem
Message-ID: <1989Nov11.145208.6514@virtech.uucp>
Date: 11 Nov 89 14:52:08 GMT
References: <699.255B9C14@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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In article <699.255B9C14@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, Marc.Unangst@p0.f129.n120.z1.fidonet.org (Marc Unangst) writes:
> 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.


That's not all it is doing. That is just the immediate reason for the invalid
drive error message.  They do lots of stuff with on the fly encryption so just
changing the partition table entries will have no good/valid effect.

I don't know the internals of watchdog, I just worked with it for a while and
found that it was a very strong disk protection program.


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