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Number   :  4492
Date     :  2003-04-30
Author   :  meirman@e...
Subject  :  Re: Fdisk
Size(KB) :  1


At 03:32 PM 4/30/03 -0700, Jon Hugdahl wrote:
>Hi:
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>Ya fdisk is clumsy and highly error prone when used. I use
>Partition Magic for all partitioning. The GUI helps to protect
>me from me. And it runs in DOS and Windows. The ability to
>resize and slide around partitions is important to me to me.
>Copying partitions is very useful.
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>However in an experiment today with PM's BootMagic, I messed up
>where I could not boot anything but BM ( :-()

So if I get boot magic, will I do that too? Or will I have to try real hard?

>On call to Powerquest I learned that I had to reset the Master
>Boot Records on all my physical drives. I was taught parameters
>that are not documented in in HELP FDISK, as follows:
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>fdisk /mbr creates a new MBR (ON DISK 1 !!!)
>fdisk /cmbr 2 creates a new MBR on disk 2, and so
>on

I eventually knew the first one from newsgroups. Not the second. You're
right it's not in my onllne help. When I find the MS book and the big Que
book, I'll look in that.

>--
>Jon Hugdahl
>1) Keep all your agreements.
>2) Do not encroach on other's person or property.
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>with a good conscience" Blaise Pascal
>"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging
>principles". - Jimmy Carter
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Meir 

meirman@e... Baltimore, MD, USA



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