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to: TOM WALKER
from: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
date: 2005-02-26 18:18:16
subject: Win98FE Harddrivicide?

-> -> -> He must of messed it up with some Funny LINUX stuff in
hte MBR that Win
-> -> -> dosne't see.

-> -> Nope, Linux fdisk worked just fine with all partitions seen fine.
-> -> It was only upon loading the OEM Windows software disk
-> -> it went bad.

-> Now yuo clicked my Memory. MicroSlime has bee screwing up those that
-> DARE go to Another DUAL boot systen other then theri own.
-> I membember back a number of years back I played with the System
-> Commnader Multiboot System They even noted that you shoudl instal the MO
-> OS last but that it woulld still Screw tings up becaseu that was the way
-> it was programed. They proviced a Rescue routine to FIX what they
-> DEliberetly Screwed up.

Not the case here.
I know about the MBR overwrite.
It was the first edition 98 fdisk that scrambled the drive
on the OEM CD the software resides on.
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