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From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
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Subject: Re: Boot Sector Writer
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.101635.25397@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 5 Dec 90 10:16:35 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.000227.7143@engage.enet.dec.com>
wallace@ynotme.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) writes:
> 
> In article <15308@cs.utexas.edu>, psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy
Carpenter) writes...
> >I was looking through my ST internals book, and fond an (X?)BIOS
routine to
> >write a boot sector on a disk.  Now, if anyone read (and hardly
anyone replied)
> The routine you are referring to, will only create a floppy compatible
boot
> sector, not a hard disk boot sector.
> 
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There are the Supra Hard Disk Utils that will let you do this
there are A set of the Old PD ones on Genie, also is it not
posible to just reinstall the Booter, I use ICD Utills, and run
there from a Floppy, and just select the Boot option, this installs
the code into the boot sector and the Driver onto the hard disk.
The Supra Utils lets you Read and Write Sectors, plus make the
Boot Sector executable, there is also a util that will backup
boot sectors,partitions, etc. Mirror2 are some thing like that.
 
 
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Roger W. Sheppard   85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...