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To: Gottfried who wrote (36395)	9/3/2003 2:01:05 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110653

i think this thread has a nice blend of assorted paranoia specialists

To: Gottfried who wrote (36395)	9/4/2003 3:48:34 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

"paranoid about boot sector corruption" - Gottfried, - I'll make this short & brief since I'am Windows 3.1 and while everything below is from DOS 5.0 rather than any shareware program, my procedure has twice in the past years given me back my hard drive upon a boot being informed that it is corrupted. - A simple note that this is not internet related unless it comes to be that a virus or worm starts a destruction procedure of the operating system itself. - Also while not directly OS related, those things called CMOS and BIOS can if handled with care and understood enough to access them safety, can save one a trip to their local pc repair shop. An example is a quick and easy and simple and safe restore of the hard disk parameters where the hard part is to first record them onto paper first. - While the term boot sector may be too general to describe what it is and does, I'll mention that the bottom line for a boot is that it obtains access to the file system of the OS, and here for Windows 3.1 I believe its called partition info, or whatever Windows uses to read/write/modify user and I'll guess, system files. - The following is the guts of a batch file (.BAT) i run each day. - C: SMARTDRV/C CHKDSK C: CHKDSK D: CHKDSK E: MIRROR C: D: E: SMARTDRV/C - Oops, I'am babbling too much and the above MIRROR are for my user files rather than system stuff. - sorry - - ok, back to a corrupted hard drive. - Use of the DOS MIRROR command can also do a disk partition table save for a restore. - (my example) C:> MIRROR/partn ... get an oops (using a bootable floppy having enough good stuff) A:> UNFORMAT C: /partn ... and hopefully you get your hard drive back... ... or, gosh i'am a little foggy on this now ... as, this is not related to above MIRROR C: D: E: ... that i do each day, ... but that floppy i make using C:> MIRROR/partn ... which i only make after booting my ... second(logical) drive with a Unix loaded. ... ok, too much babble - Records information about one or more disks. MIRROR [drive:[ ...]] [/1] [/Tdrive[-entries][ ...]] MIRROR [/PARTN] /PARTN Saves hard disk partition information to a floppy diskette. MIRROR, UNDELETE, and UNFORMAT Copyright (C) 1987-1991 Central Point Software,Inc. Restores a disk erased by the FORMAT command or restructured by the RECOVER command. --- UNFORMAT drive: [/J] UNFORMAT drive: [/U] [/L] [/TEST] [/P] UNFORMAT /PARTN [/L] /J Verifies that the mirror files agree with the system information on the disk. /U Unformats without using MIRROR files. /L Lists all file and directory names found, or, when used with the /PARTN switch, displays current partition tables. /TEST Displays information but does not write changes to disk. /PARTN Restores disk partition tables.