On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:18:38 -0500, kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>>
>> The disk signature is at 0x01B8 not 0x00DC so I don't know whether Zvi
>> was referring to something else.
>
>found this
>http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.s...df2b5ad76f5660
>
>apparently although the signature is now at 0x01b8, it used to be at
>0x00dc for win9x...


So an alternative boot manager is at risk of being corrupted by win9x
writing it's disk signature in the middle of the loader code area. Par
for the course with Microsoft, I suppose. Installing win9x always used
to zap any existing boot manager without warning or asking. They
couldn't care less.


Jim.