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From: vli@mpr.ca (Vincent Li)
Subject: Installing a formatted disk
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Reply-To: vli@handel.UUCP (Vincent Li)
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 19:52:12 GMT

Hi there,

This may be a beginner's question, but I can't seem to be able to find
reference to it, one way or the other, anywhere:
When you format a disk for the PC, floppy or hard disk, you can specify
whether or not the disk is to be bootable or not, right? Now, suppose
I've formatted the disk to be non-bootable. Is there any way that I can
make it bootable (a system disk) afterwards without having to
reinitialize the whole thing (and loose all data that was on the disk)?
More specifically, I'm interested in doing this to a hard disk.

Thanks in advance.
-- Vince
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