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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:40:21 PST
From: Steven Levine <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Corrupted Partition Table

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In <36C8FD9B.7B9203DD@usa.net>, on 02/14/99
at 09:02 PM, Sheridan George said:

>Booted with floppies with bios drive mode settings at normal, lba, large,
>and auto. Looked at fdisk in each case. Still could not make the boot
>manager bootable (delete partition only available option). Did a
>non-floppy boot with each setting and got the "... Insert boot disk"
>message.

FWIW, you never mark Boot Manager bootable. It should be marked
Startable.

If you know the sizes of your original partitions and you could patch the
partition table or at least verify the values.

Steven

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