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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: help with boot sector info
Message-ID: <25307@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:09:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.232804.6060@cs.mcgill.ca>
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Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <1991Apr4.232804.6060@cs.mcgill.ca> depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit) writes:
>I have quite a bit of ST disks which don't have the MSDOS bootsector.
>The ones that were formatted under tos1.4 are reading fine on my PC,
>but the ones formatted with TURTLE are unreadable.
>
>Could some kind soul please e-mail me information about how to make an
>ST disk readable on a PC by changing whatever sector is needed to be
>changed through Norton Utilites?


If you have a copy of VKILLER, version 3.0 or later, just do a KILL
on the disk. The resulting bootsector, with all non-critical data
zeroed, will also have the necessary values to be readable on any
MS-DOS system.

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