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Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:37:12 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Sysinstx

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Rocky wrote:

> > could any harm be
> > done ? That was really my question.

> I may be wrong but the only possibility for damage
> that I see is that a data file gets overwritten,
> i.e., the space that SYSINSTX wants to use is
> otherwise occupied with your data. I guess that's
> why I cited the cloning issue and said that I don't
> know if it overwrites or safely moves files that may
> otherwise occupy the space.

My guess is that this critical space does get reserved. There was some version of DOS (5.0 ?)
that introduced a reserved space feature for the key system files (which had to occupy a
particular space, at the beginning of the partition), in part to make future upgrades safer. I
think that became a standard, and any version of OS/2 from 1.0 on would have followed suit. I
don't know that much about WIN, but NT has a boot loader that has to exist in an early sector.

Jordan

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