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echo: virus_info
to: JEFF EDMONSON
from: RICK COLLINS
date: 1997-06-27 06:52:00
subject: Virus checker

-=> Quoting Jeff Edmonson to Rick Collins <=-
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RC> You don't lose the boot sector even with the /u switch.
RC> FORMAT is a DOS command.  The hard disk boot sector does not
RC> reside on a DOS volume.
JE> What happens when you format with the switch /MBR, TWICE?
The /MBR switch is not a switch on the FORMAT command, it's a switch
on the FDISK command.  And if you use it twice it will do what it
does, twice:  write a new boot record.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 27 Jun 6:54 
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