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From: mike@idca.tds.philips.nl (Mike Corrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?
Summary: If no files yet written to the disk ...
Keywords: disk format DOS
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Date: 6 May 91 11:50:49 GMT
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I always thought that one could write a system to a flexible disk *IF*
no files had yet been written to that disk. The reason: the system
files occupy the first two slots in the root directory. If these are not
empty, the SYS command cannot work.

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