Hi John; On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:37 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi Jacques et al; [snip] > fdisk, when partitioning, will write an MBR with no boot code. > > grub and lilo (re)write the boot code when installed. Windows XP also > has the ability to write its boot code after partitioning, and if > suitably desperate I'd find out how again:-) > Of course. Read that but it didn't sink in. I think I now have all the pieces. -- Regards Bill