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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:39:00 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Partition Magic disks

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In , on 08/18/03
at 10:08 AM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

>Can I indeed just unhide the hidden files, zip, unzip, and recopy to a
>new floppy? I thought there was something special about a boot disk
>that is not reflected in the file listing. Please educate me.

If you format the diskette under DOS with:

format /s

you can just unzip and the diskette will boot just fine. However, why
bother? Just use savedskf to save an image and loaddskf to restore the
image to diskette and have a one-step solution.

There's also Daniel Valot's

http://dvalot.free.fr/bin/EMTINST.ZIP

can do the same thing.

Steven

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