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From: dj1l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Demian A. Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?
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Date: 4 May 91 01:44:27 GMT
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When the first set of sectors on the disk are empty.  The Bootstrap
MSDOS.SYS  (IBMDOS.COM) IO.SYS (IBMBIO.COM) need to be the first items
on the disk.
Demian J.    =======>     dj1l+@andrew.cmu.edu