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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:53:12 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: compaq armada and fdisk
Message-ID:  <199707301123.UAA21572@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707300957.LAA11633@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Jul 30, 97 11:57:25 am"

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Guido van Rooij stands accused of saying:
> Michael Smith wrote:
> > Guido van Rooij stands accused of saying:
> > > I am trying to use fdisk (and fips) on a compaq armada 1130. Somehow, the
> > > bootsector seems to be protected. Does anyone now here how to bypass
> > > that?
> > 
> > Hit the BIOS config and turn off "Virus Protection".
> 
> I'm not an idiot ;-)

No way of telling that from here 8)

> There is no virus protection option on that Compaq Bios.

Drat.  How about antivirus software?  Disk Mangler/Ezdisk oder etw.?

Is it still protected if you boot from floppy?

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