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From: IO92203@MAINE.BITNET (Scott Maxell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?
Message-ID: <91126.133136IO92203@MAINE.BITNET>
Date: 6 May 91 17:31:35 GMT
References: <1991May3.191723.24131@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: University of Maine System
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In article <1991May3.191723.24131@midway.uchicago.edu>,
valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) says:
>
>Upon what does it depend?  The version of DOS?  The kind of drive
>(LD or HD, 5.25" or 3.5") or what?
>
>I know you didnt used to be able to do this (Gosh, what grammar!),
>so that if, for example, you bought a box of preformatted disks, but
>needed them to be system disks, you had to reformat them all anyway.
>--

   PC magazine has a utility - unfortunately can't remember the issue -
called DISKPREP.COM that will make a disk sys-able. This can be done
on any disk as long as there is enough space for the files on the disk.
If there are no files on the disk, they can be SYSed anyway...

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