Boot sector writes

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Hello again. I have finally managed to fit a new Western Digital caviar 80Gb
drive to my Win98 PC... Had to d/l the new fdisk, which partitioned it into
one big partition. I then tried to FORMAT it, but it only recognised it as
10Gb, and there didn't seem to be a new version of that at MS web site.
I used partition magic 6, which would only offer me FAT32 if I
repartitioned. I know the issues about cluster size, but left it as 4Gb and
72Gb. Partition Magic told me I had to let through boot sector writes even
if the BIOS protection flagged them, which I did.

However when booting, I got another warning about boot sector writes - do I
let the writes happen or not? I have up to date anti-virus.

Thanks
 
S.Boardman said:
Hello again. I have finally managed to fit a new Western Digital caviar 80Gb
drive to my Win98 PC... Had to d/l the new fdisk, which partitioned it into
one big partition. I then tried to FORMAT it, but it only recognised it as
10Gb, and there didn't seem to be a new version of that at MS web site.
I used partition magic 6, which would only offer me FAT32 if I
repartitioned. I know the issues about cluster size, but left it as 4Gb and
72Gb. Partition Magic told me I had to let through boot sector writes even
if the BIOS protection flagged them, which I did.

However when booting, I got another warning about boot sector writes - do I
let the writes happen or not? I have up to date anti-virus.
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yes, let the partitioning software write to the bootsector
 
philo said:
do


yes, let the partitioning software write to the bootsector
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The partitioning software did write at the time. The last one was after the
reboot when starting to load win98 ?
 
The partitioning software did write at the time. The last one was after the
reboot when starting to load win98 ?
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That's correct.
installing an operating system, partitioning the drive, or even changing
the label will write to the bootsector... it's not a virus.
 
philo said:
That's correct.
installing an operating system, partitioning the drive, or even changing
the label will write to the bootsector... it's not a virus.
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Thanks :-)
 
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