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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5929)	2/5/1999 7:19:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

OS/2 BM, Boot Magic?, System Commander all give you the ability to hide and unhide paritions and set the bootable partition. With a BM all primary partitions whether currently hidden or not show up on the menu and you simply select which one you want to boot. I guess your not editing the MBR but loading an application that can boot any partition in your system whether hidden or not. Sean

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5929)	2/5/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>Look at master boot record Any disk editor that lets you look at absolute sectors. It's sector 0 on the physical drive. (cyl 0, trk 0, sect 0). NT has utilities that allow looking and, more important, formatting what you're looking at. I've posted before, let's see ... got it. Diskprobe.exe, in the resource kit. You can also edit. Only runs from NT, though. You must have admin priveleges (even to look I think). You can also look at the partition boot sector, which has a certain structure even though it's OS specific. Well, you can LOOK anywhere, but it can format a partition boot sector and MBR to interpret what you're looking at, up to a point.