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Geo. posted the following to homeless.nthelp:

> "John Beckett" 
wrote in message
> news:3dd23543.10018055{at}216.144.1.254...
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> > But diskpart has no way (I think) to mark a partition active.
>
> I spent half an hour trying to find a way to do it from the recovery
> console, I couldn't do it.
>
> As a result, I have now created a DOS boot CD with the whole range of DOS
> disk tools, hardware diagnostics, drivers, Norton for DOS, PCtools sector
> editor, boot.ini, and a few other files.
>
> Geo. (I hope I can remember how to use edlin)
>
>
>
Geo.,
When you were attempting to format the 185G, did you also try form cmd?
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l'bodacious - How did they, Microsoft, test? With SCSI, bob chronister,
drive I guess.

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