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Timothy Daniels
John John said:It does, CZ, there is absolutely no doubt about that, fdisk /mbr rewrites the
disk signature, that is a long well known characteristic of the command,
sometimes that "feature" can be used to advantage to correct certain drive
letter problems on Windows 2000/XP.
Fdisk /mbr rewrites the first 446 bytes of the MBR. Fixmbr, The Windows
2000/XP Recovery Console equivalent only rewrites the first 440 bytes. The
disk signature is held at bytes 440 to 443, just above the rewrite threshold
of fixmbr and within the extra six bytes that fdisk /mbr rewrites.
You mean with DiskProbe? No, I don't think so. Give this Disk Editor a try:
http://mh-nexus.de/hxd/ I think you will like it better than DiskProbe.
John
So what is the bottom line? Is the XP MBR interchangeable with
Vista's MBR?
*TimDaniels*