lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (02/28/90)
In <2623@leah.Albany.Edu>, wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes: >Does anyone have a utility to de-install a floppy without disturbing >the directories and files that are present? (I know that "format" >will de-install, but it also wipes out all directories and files.) >Preferably the boot blocks should be left looking as if they came from >"format". Interesting idea, and one that is easy to implement. Until someone does it, you could use DEdit or Sectorama. The only required value in sector 0 is 'DOS',0 or $444F5300, in the first longword, so you can safely put anything in the rest of the sector. Sectorama will not allow you to update a block if it does not have a valid checksum, but the checksum will not affect anything. So, just go to sector 0 and use ASCII edit to put in blanks or credits or a flame about MsDos starting at the second longword. -larry -- Gallium Arsenide is the technology of the future; always has been, always will be. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) (02/28/90)
Does anyone have a utility to de-install a floppy without disturbing the directories and files that are present? (I know that "format" will de-install, but it also wipes out all directories and files.) Preferably the boot blocks should be left looking as if they came from "format". Thanks. -- Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics 518-442-4625 SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222 wfh58@leah.albany.edu wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------
wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) (03/01/90)
Thanks to those of you who sent me mail. -- Bill
mrush@csuchico.edu (Matt Rush) (03/03/90)
In article <1175@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >In <2623@leah.Albany.Edu>, wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes: >>Does anyone have a utility to de-install a floppy without disturbing >>the directories and files that are present? (I know that "format" >>will de-install, but it also wipes out all directories and files.) >>Preferably the boot blocks should be left looking as if they came from >>"format". > >Interesting idea, and one that is easy to implement. Until someone does it, you Gee, how about just using INSTALL DRIVE df0: NOBOOT ^^^^^^ the noboot keyword makes it a dos disk, but it prevents you from booting from it. Those 1.3 guys are pretty clever, huh? -- Matt (no, I don't have a .sig -- ya wanna make something of it? Or better yet, make something FOR it?)