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echo: nthelp
to: Geo.
from: You Can
date: 2002-11-15 10:25:20
subject: Re: Marking partitions active

From: You Can 

Geo. posted the following to homeless.nthelp:

> "You Can"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.183e4d5b3982b9909896a2{at}news.barkto.com...
>
> > How about a utility like Partition Magic.  I realize you don't want to
> > do that.
>
> that's where I started, I drive imaged everything over to the new drives but
> then I couldn't get the system to boot.
>
> I suspect it was the boot sector just as in the error I get when formatting
> from the command line.
>
> Geo.
>

My bad.  I meant using PQ to partition and format the drive removing MS
from the equation. ...doesn't disk manager affect some bits (byte) in the
MBR/partition table?

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l'bodacious - We need to get this fixed.  WD 200GB drives just went on sale
at Fry's :-{

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