On May 15, 5:42=A0am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> There is no authorized access for a DOS PC. =A0It's entirely based on
trus=
t of
> the individual. =A0You could copy all the available DOS files from the
> machine, but they were unuseable without a bootable DOS disk. =A0DOS'
SYS.=
COM
> creates bootable disks. =A0By removing SYS.COM, the files become
worthless=
> (unless you knew an alternate method to construct a bootable disk
without
> SYS.COM).
> Rod Pemberton
In the days of DOS viruses, becuse most early viruses installed
themselves on the boot track, I learned to copy a pristine sector 0
track (actually with the early Norton tools), and whenever I wanted to
recover a diskette for someone I would write back that track zero. I
think that qualifies as how to make a bootable disk. I was once very
keen on discovering and re****ting viruses, but it became a deluge.
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