When you loose the boot sector it becomes invisible, it won't mount on a PC
either without running Fdisk to restore the boot sector!  Fdisk will find
the drive and allow you to create a new boot sector, partition and format.
Brandy

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Of Mark A. Kippert
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:15 PM
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Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Problem with Internal HD


Brandy on 12/11/00 3:37 PM wrote:

> Yes you can!
> Using Fdisk on and PC will do it!  The drive becomes un-mountable without
an
> active boot partition.

Perhaps that's what I was told. I'm sure there was a way to render an IDE
drive "invisible" to the Mac. Just don't remember the specifics.

-makmac




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